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Holographic studies of quasi-topological gravity

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Quasi-topological gravity is a new gravitational theory including curvaturecubed interactions and for which exact black hole solutions were constructed. In a holographic framework, classical quasi-topological gravity can be thought to be dual to the large N c limit of some non-supersymmetric but conformal gauge theory. We establish various elements of the AdS/CFT dictionary for this duality. This allows us to infer physical constraints on the couplings in the gravitational theory. Further we use holography to investigate hydrodynamic aspects of the dual gauge theory. In particular, we find that the minimum value of the shear-viscosity-to-entropy-density ratio for this model is η/s ≃ 0.4140/(4π).

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Myers, R.C., Paulos, M.F. & Sinha, A. Holographic studies of quasi-topological gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 35 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2010)035

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