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Holographic thermalization from Kerr-AdS

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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.

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  1. Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAS, Gubkin str. 8, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Irina Aref’eva

  2. Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333CA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Andrey Bagrov

  3. Theoretische Natuurkunde, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and The International Solvay Institutes, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Alexey S. Koshelev

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Aref’eva, I., Bagrov, A. & Koshelev, A.S. Holographic thermalization from Kerr-AdS. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 170 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2013)170

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