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arxiv: 0905.0900 · v2 · submitted 2009-05-07 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph· nucl-th

Holography and the speed of sound at high temperatures

classification ✦ hep-th hep-phnucl-th
keywords classhighsoundspeedtemperaturestheoriesanomalyapproaches
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We show that in a general class of strongly interacting theories at high temperatures the speed of sound approaches the conformal value c_s^2=1/3 universally from_below_. This class includes theories holographically dual to a theory of gravity coupled to a single scalar field, representing the operator of the scale anomaly.

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