Holography and Colliding Gravitational Shock Waves in Asymptotically AdS(5) Spacetime

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Chesler, Paul Michael; Yaffe, Laurence
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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.
Date issued
2011-01
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62838
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Chesler, Paul M., and Laurence G. Yaffe. “Holography and Colliding Gravitational Shock Waves in Asymptotically AdS_{5} Spacetime.” Physical Review Letters 106.2 (2011) : 021601. © 2011 The American Physical Society
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0031-9007
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