{
  "id": "hep-th/0302026",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2003-02-05T20:34:30.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-05-15T01:08:22.000Z",
  "title": "AdS/CFT correspondence, quasinormal modes, and thermal correlators in N=4 SYM",
  "authors": [
    "Alvaro Nunez",
    "Andrei O. Starinets"
  ],
  "comment": "30 pages, 1 table, 14 figures; one important correction - the paragraph containing Eq.(4.19) in v.1 is removed; typos corrected, references added",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D67:124013,2003",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.67.124013",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "gr-qc",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We use the Lorentzian AdS/CFT prescription to find the poles of the retarded thermal Green's functions of ${\\cal N=4}$ SU(N) SYM theory in the limit of large N and large 't Hooft coupling. In the process, we propose a natural definition for quasinormal modes in an asymptotically AdS spacetime, with boundary conditions dictated by the AdS/CFT correspondence. The corresponding frequencies determine the dispersion laws for the quasiparticle excitations in the dual finite-temperature gauge theory. Correlation functions of operators dual to massive scalar, vector and gravitational perturbations in a five-dimensional AdS-Schwarzschild background are considered. We find asymptotic formulas for quasinormal frequencies in the massive scalar and tensor cases, and an exact expression for vector perturbations. In the long-distance, low-frequency limit we recover results of the hydrodynamic approximation to thermal Yang-Mills theory.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2003-05-15T01:08:22.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "11.27.+d",
      "04.70.Bw",
      "04.70.Dy",
      "11.10.Wx"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "quasinormal modes",
      "ads/cft correspondence",
      "thermal correlators",
      "dual finite-temperature gauge theory",
      "retarded thermal greens functions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 30,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 612878
    }
  }
}