A sticky business: the status of the conjectured viscosity/entropy density bound

dc.creatorCherman, Aleksey
dc.creatorCohen, Thomas D.
dc.creatorHohler, Paul M.
dc.date2007-08-30
dc.date2007-12-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:59:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:59:18Z
dc.descriptionThere have been a number of forms of a conjecture that there is a universal lower bound on the ratio, eta/s, of the shear viscosity, eta, to entropy density, s, with several different domains of validity. We examine the various forms of the conjecture. We argue that a number of variants of the conjecture are not viable due to the existence of theoretically consistent counterexamples. We also note that much of the evidence in favor of a bound does not apply to the variants which have not yet been ruled out.
dc.description23 pages, 4 figures, added references, corrected typos, added subsection in response to Son's comments in arXiv:0709.4651
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4201
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4201
dc.identifierJHEP 0802:026,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/026
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/225529
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.subjectFluid Dynamics
dc.titleA sticky business: the status of the conjectured viscosity/entropy density bound
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