PIRSA:09100100

Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity

Paulos, M. (2009). Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09100100

Paulos, Miguel. Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 20, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09100100 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09100100,
            doi = {10.48660/09100100},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09100100},
            author = {Paulos, Miguel},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:09100100 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Miguel Paulos École Normale Supérieure - PSL

DOI 10.48660/09100100
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Recently there has been great interest in calculating transport coefficients for field theories at large coupling, using AdS/CFT. In this talk I will discuss recent work showing how to use the membrane paradigm to easily compute the shear viscosity and conductivity in arbitrary gravity theories. In a certain sense these can be thought of as effective couplings at the black hole horizon dual to the field theory plasma. An explicit Wald-like formula for these couplings is given for a large class of generalized gravity theories.