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We perform a numerical simulation of the evolution of inhomogeneities with transverse profile in a collision of gravitational shockwaves in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. This constitutes a step closer towards an accurate holographic description of the thermalization of a strongly coupled plasma, which can model the dynamics of heavy ion collisions. The results indicate that the considered inhomogeneities typically become hydrodynamical earlier or at the same moment when hydrodynamics applies to the background, even though they decay slowly.
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Fernández, D. Towards collisions of inhomogeneous shockwaves in AdS. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 126 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2015)126
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