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arxiv: 0901.1421 · v2 · submitted 2009-01-11 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc· nucl-th

Shear Viscosity from Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with a Dilaton Coupling

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qcnucl-th
keywords gravitydilatongauss-bonnetshearviscosityfieldnon-trivialbound
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We calculate the shear viscosity of field theories with gravity duals of Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a non-trivial dilaton using AdS/CFT. We find that the dilaton filed has a non-trivial contribution to the ratio of shear viscosity over entropy density and after imposing causal constraint for the boundary field theory, the new lower bound $4/25\pi$, obtained from pure Gauss-Bonnet gravity, may have a small violation.

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