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2026
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05985 |
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- This work investigates a modified theory of gravity where the Einstein-Hilbert action, including a cosmological constant, is non-minimally coupled to a Yang-Mills field via an \(R^3 F_{μα}^{(a)} F^{(a)μα}\) interaction term. We treat this coupling as the leading higher-derivative correction in a low-energy effective field theory (EFT) deformation of the standard Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. We derive a black brane solution for this model, accurate to the first order in the EFT coupling parameter \(q_2\), and specify the regime of validity \(\frac{|q_2|}{L^6} \ll 1\). Using gauge/gravity duality techniques, we then compute two key holographic transport coefficients: the color non-abelian direct current (DC) conductivity and the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density. Our analysis reveals that both transport coefficients are modified by the non-minimal coupling, with the conductivity bound violated for positive \(q_2\) and the Kovtun-Son-Starinets (KSS) bound for shear viscosity violated for negative \(q_2\). The results are interpreted within the EFT framework, and possible constraints on the sign of \(q_2\) from stability and causality are discussed. In the limit where the non-minimal coupling vanishes, our results consistently reduce to those of the standard Yang-Mills Schwarzschild Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black brane.