Holography and Colliding Gravitational Shock Waves in Asymptotically AdS{sub 5} Spacetime

Journal Article · Fri Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.106.021601· OSTI ID:21532237

Chesler, Paul M; Yaffe, Laurence G ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

Using holography, we study the collision of planar shock waves in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This requires the numerical solution of a dual gravitational initial value problem in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime.

• OSTI ID: 21532237
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.021601; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ANTI DE SITTER GROUP
ANTI DE SITTER SPACE
COLLISIONS
GRAVITATION
HOLOGRAPHY
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
SHOCK WAVES
SPACE-TIME
SUPERSYMMETRY
YANG-MILLS THEORY
LIE GROUPS
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
MATHEMATICAL SPACE
SPACE
SYMMETRY
SYMMETRY GROUPS