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arxiv: 0810.4181 · v2 · submitted 2008-10-22 · ✦ hep-th · hep-lat· hep-ph

Shear viscosity of pure Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling

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keywords couplingpureratioshearstrongtheoryviscosityyang-mills
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We calculate the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio in pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory below the critical temperature using the strong coupling expansion. The result for the eta/s ratio for temperatures around the phase transition is 0.22 for N = 2 and 0.028N^2 for N > 2. The results are consistent with the conjectured 1/4pi lower bound inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence.

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