Phys. Rev. D 78, 066017 (2008) [9 pages]Shear transport coefficients from gauge/gravity correspondenceReceived 25 June 2008; published 25 September 2008 We study the shear mode in the gauge/gravity correspondence at finite temperature. First, we confirm the general formula for the shear viscosity in an arbitrary background metric which includes a black hole in the fifth dimension. We then derive a general formula for the shear mode relaxation time which appears in the theory of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics; it agrees with known expressions in the limit of conformal fields. These results may be useful in relativistic viscous fluid descriptions of high energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.066017
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.066017
PACS:
11.25.Tq, 12.38.Lg, 12.38.Mh, 47.75.+f
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