We set up a unified framework to efficiently compute the shear and bulk viscosities of strongly coupled gauge theories with gravitational holographic duals involving higher derivative corrections. We consider both Weyl4corrections, encoding the finite ’t Hooft coupling corrections of the boundary theory, and Riemann2corrections, responsible for non-equal central charges
We showed earlier that the level set function of a monotonic advancing front is twice differentiable everywhere with bounded second derivative and satisfies the equation classically. We show here that the second derivative is continuous if and only if the flow has a single singular time where it becomes extinct and the singular set consists of a closed
- Award ID(s):
- 1707270
- PAR ID:
- 10532029
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 0010-3640
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 814 to 824
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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