Turbulent strings in AdS/CFT Seminar

I will talk about nonlinear dynamics of the flux tube between an external quark-antiquark pair in N=4 SYM using the gravity dual given by a string in AdS. I will numerically compute the nonlinear time evolution of the string when the endpoints are perturbed in various ways. Results show cusp formation on the string. I will then discuss a connection between this phenomenon and turbulent behavior in the energy spectrum. This talk is based on arXiv:1504.02190.