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Relaxing the Cosmological Constant: a Proof of Concept
Lasma Alberte, Paolo Creminelli, Andrei Khmelnitsky +2
We propose a technically natural scenario whereby an initially large cosmological constant (c.c.) is relaxed down to the observed value due to the dynamics of a scalar evolving on…
hep-th2016★ 113 cited
Viscosity bound violation in holographic solids and the viscoelastic response
Lasma Alberte, Matteo Baggioli, Oriol Pujolas
We argue that the Kovtun--Son--Starinets (KSS) lower bound on the viscosity to entropy density ratio holds in fluid systems but is violated in solid materials with a non-zero shear…