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Holography and Colliding Gravitational Shock Waves in Asymptotically AdS5 Spacetime

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Using holography, we study the collision of planar shock waves in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This requires the numerical solution of a dual gravitational initial value problem in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.021601

Authors: Paul M. Chesler, Laurence G. Yaffe

Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Award: "EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS"