Consistent Anti-de Sitter-Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Dual for a Time-Dependent Finite Temperature System

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We propose a consistent setup for the holographic dual of the strongly coupled large-Nc N=4 super Yang-Mills theory plasma which undergoes the Bjorken flow relevant to the quark-gluon plasma at BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN LHC.

• The dual geometry is constructed order by order in a well-defined late-time expansion.
• The transport coefficients are determined by the regularity of the geometry.
• We prove, for the first time, that the dual geometry has an apparent horizon hence an event horizon, which covers a singularity at the origin.