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Friction Coefficient for Quarks in Supergravity Duals

arXiv:hep-th/0611235

Abstract

We study quarks moving in strongly-coupled plasmas that have supergravity duals. We compute the friction coefficient of strings dual to such quarks for general static supergravity backgrounds near the horizon. Our results also show that a previous conjecture on the bound has to be modified and higher friction coefficients can be achieved.

9 pages, harvmac (b)