Simplifying plasma balls and black holes with nonlinear diffusion

The AdS / CFT dictionary, while still incomplete, hints at deep connections between thermal field theories and the dynamics of black holes. Without specifying a Lagrangian, we develop a non-standard approximation for field theories dominated by thermal noise in order to show that many black hole fea...

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Main Author: Behan, Connor Classen
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/48486