Master field treatment of metric perturbations sourced by the trailing string

Gubser, Steven S.; Pufu, Silviu S.

Master field treatment of metric perturbations sourced by the trailing string

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We present decoupled, separable forms of the linearized Einstein equations sourced by a string trailing behind an external quark moving through a thermal state of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We solve these equations in the approximations of large and small wave-numbers.
40 pages, 3 figures