Robinson-Trautman spacetimes and gauge/gravity duality
K. Skenderis* and B. Withers
Pre-published on:
October 04, 2017
Published on:
October 05, 2017
Abstract
We study far-from-equilibrium field theory dynamics using gauge/gravity duality applied to the Robinson-Trautman (RT) class of spacetimes and we present a number of new results. First, we assess the applicability of the hydrodynamic approximation to inhomogeneous plasma dynamics dual to RT spacetimes. We prove that to any order in a late time expansion it is possible to identify variables corresponding to the local energy density and fluid velocity. However, we show using numerical examples that this does not hold at the non-perturbative level; for sufficiently inhomogeneous initial data a local rest frame does not exist. Second, we preset a new class of holographic inhomogeneous plasma flows on the plane. The corresponding spacetimes are not of the RT type but they can be obtained from RT spacetimes with spatially compact boundaries by coordinate transformations which generate Poincare patch-like coordinates with planar boundaries. We demonstrate the application of this procedure using numerical examples.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.292.0097
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