Holography and colliding gravitational shock waves in asymptotically AdS5_{5} spacetime

Nov, 2010
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 021601
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Abstract: (arXiv)
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.
Note:
  • 5 pages, 3 figures
  • 11.25.Tq
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills: supersymmetry
  • gravitation: duality
  • supersymmetry: 4
  • shock waves: scattering
  • gravitational radiation: shock waves
  • dimension: 5
  • holography
  • numerical calculations