https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4995-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Linearized holographic isotropization at finite coupling
1
Physics Department, Shahrood University of Technology, P.O. Box 3619995161, Shahrood, Iran
2
School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5531, Tehran, Iran
* e-mail: bitaghsir@shahroodut.ac.ir
Received:
29
March
2017
Accepted:
15
June
2017
Published online:
28
June
2017
We study holographic isotropization of an anisotropic homogeneous non-Abelian strongly coupled plasma in the presence of Gauss–Bonnet corrections. It was verified before that one can linearize Einstein’s equations around the final black hole background and simplify the complicated setup. Using this approach, we study the expectation value of the boundary stress tensor. Although we consider small values of the Gauss–Bonnet coupling constant, it is found that finite coupling leads to significant increasing of the thermalization time. By including higher order corrections in linearization, we extend the results to study the effect of the Gauss–Bonnet coupling on the entropy production on the event horizon.
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