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Universality of the shear viscosity in supergravity

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arxiv hep-th/0311175 v1 pith:QYJ3YMP4 submitted 2003-11-19 hep-th

Alex Buchel , James T. Liu This is my paper · ORCID
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Kovtun, Son and Starinets proposed a bound on the shear viscosity of any fluid in terms of its entropy density. We argue that this bound is always saturated for gauge theories at large 't Hooft coupling, which admit holographically dual supergravity description.

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