Plasmarings as dual black rings

TL;DR

This paper constructs solutions to relativistic fluid equations representing spinning plasma configurations, which are dual to rotating black rings in higher-dimensional AdS spaces, revealing new insights into black hole physics via holography.

Contribution

It introduces stationary, axially symmetric spinning plasma solutions in deconfined N=4 Yang Mills theory, extending the fluid/gravity correspondence to black ring geometries.

Findings

Solutions describe spinning plasma balls and rings.

Dual to rotating black rings in AdS spaces.

Properties resemble black rings in supergravity.

Abstract

We construct solutions to the relativistic Navier-Stokes equations that describe the long wavelength collective dynamics of the deconfined plasma phase of N=4 Yang Mills theory compactified down to d=3 on a Scherk-Schwarz circle and higher dimensional generalisations. Our solutions are stationary, axially symmetric spinning balls and rings of plasma. These solutions, which are dual to (yet to be constructed) rotating black holes and black rings in Scherk-Schwarz compactified AdS(5) and AdS(6), and have properties that are qualitatively similar to those of black holes and black rings in flat five dimensional supergravity.