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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 80, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.066003
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- US DoE [DE-FG02-05ER41368]
- US NSF [PHY-0652782]
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We show that the squared speed of sound v(s)(2) is bounded from above at high temperatures by the conformal value of 1/3 in a class of strongly coupled four-dimensional field theories, given some mild technical assumptions. This class consists of field theories that have gravity duals sourced by a single-scalar field. There are no known examples to date of field theories with gravity duals for which v(s)(2) exceeds 1/3 in energetically favored configurations. We conjecture that v(s)(2) 1/3 represents an upper bound for a broad class of four-dimensional theories.
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