Holographic Thermalization from Kerr-AdS

Irina Aref'eva, Andrey Bagrov, Alexey S. Koshelev

Published 2013-05-14, updated 2013-07-19Version 2

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.