title: Holography and Colliding gravitational shock waves in asymptotically AdS5 spacetime.
abstract: Using holography, we study the collision of planar shock waves in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This requires the numerical solution of a dual gravitational initial value problem in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. pchesler@mit.edu
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Chesler
authors.forename: Laurence G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Yaffe