Shear viscosity of pure Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling
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We calculate the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio in pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory using the strong coupling expansion. The result for the η/s ratio for temperatures around the phase transition is 0.056 for any value of N , however the systematic uncertainty is hard to estimate.
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