1303.7342 (Alice Bernamonti et al.)

The spectral function in a strongly coupled, thermalising CFT    [PDF]

Alice Bernamonti, Ben Craps, Joris Vanhoof

In relation to the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, we discuss a time-dependent notion of spectral function and effective temperature. Extending recent results from arXiv:1212.6066, we work out these quantities in a two-dimensional thermalising CFT dual to AdS3-Vaidya spacetime which interpolates between a black brane geometry at early times and a higher temperature black brane at late times. The computation is carried out in the gravitational holographic dual in the geodesic approximation and using a non-standard analytic continuation.

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