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hep-th200887 cited

Evolution to a smooth universe in an ekpyrotic contracting phase with w > 1

David Garfinkle, Woei Chet Lim, Frans Pretorius +1

A period of slow contraction with equation of state w > 1, known as an ekpyrotic phase, has been shown to flatten and smooth the universe if it begins the phase with small perturba…

hep-th2008177 cited

Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions

Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Amos Yarom

We calculate the area of a marginally trapped surface formed by a head-on collision of gravitational shock waves in AdS_D. We use this to obtain a lower bound on the entropy produc…

hep-th2008281 cited

Thermodynamics and bulk viscosity of approximate black hole duals to finite temperature quantum chromodynamics

Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore, Silviu S. Pufu +1

We consider classes of translationally invariant black hole solutions whose equations of state closely resemble that of QCD at zero chemical potential. We use these backgrounds to…

hep-th200819 cited

Electromagnetic form factors from the fifth dimension

D. Rodriguez-Gomez, J. Ward

We analyse various form factors of mesons at strong coupling in an flavored version of which becomes conformal in the UV. The quar…

hep-th2008293 cited

Mimicking the QCD equation of state with a dual black hole

Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore

We present numerical and analytical studies of the equation of state of translationally invariant black hole solutions to five-dimensional gravity coupled to a single scalar. As an…

hep-th200834 cited

Interacting finite-size magnons

Thomas Klose, Tristan McLoughlin

We explicitly construct a large class of finite-volume two-magnon string solutions moving on R x S^2. In particular, by making use of the relationship between the O(3) sigma model…