Holographic thermalization from Kerr-AdS

  • Irina Aref’eva
  • Andrey Bagrov
  • Alexey S. Koshelev
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Abstract

We study thermalization of a strongly coupled theory holographically dual to a thin shell of null dust with non-zero angular momentum collapsing to Kerr-AdS. We calculate thermalization time for two point correlation functions. It happens that in the 3-dimensional case the thermalization time is just proportional to the distance between points where the correlator is evaluated. This is a very surprising and rather unexpected generalization of the same relation in the case of zero momentum.

Keywords

Gauge-gravity correspondence Holography and quark-gluon plasmas 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Irina Aref’eva
    • 1
  • Andrey Bagrov
    • 2
  • Alexey S. Koshelev
    • 3
  1. 1.Steklov Mathematical Institute, RASMoscowRussia
  2. 2.Lorentz Institute for Theoretical PhysicsLeiden UniversityLeidenThe Netherlands
  3. 3.Theoretische Natuurkunde, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and The International Solvay InstitutesBrusselsBelgium

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