Shear Viscosity from the Effective Coupling of Gravitons
arXiv:1006.0539 · doi:10.1142/9789814307673_0011
Abstract
We review the progress in the holographic calculation of shear viscosity for strongly coupled field theories. We focus on the calculation of shear viscosity from the effective coupling of transverse gravitons and present some explicit examples.
10 pages, invited presentation for the 9th Asia-Pacific International Conference On Gravitation And Astrophysics (ICGA 9), June 28-July 2, 2009, Wuhan, China; for the proceedings to be published by World Scientific