Holographic thermalization in N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory at finite coupling

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We investigate the behavior of energy momentum tensor correlators in holographic $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills plasma, taking finite coupling corrections into account.

• In the thermal limit we determine the flow of quasinormal modes as a function of the 't Hooft coupling.
• Then we use a specific model of holographic thermalization to study the deviation of the spectral densities from their thermal limit in an out-of-equilibrium situation.
• The main focus lies on the thermalization pattern with which the plasma constituents approach their thermal distribution as the coupling constant decreases from the infinite coupling limit.