Finite Temperature Gases of Fermionic Strings

dc.creatorChaudhuri, Shyamoli
dc.date2002-08-15
dc.date2005-09-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T21:10:03Z
dc.descriptionWe show that in the absence of a Ramond-Ramond sector both the type IIA and type IIB free string gases have a thermal instability due to low temperature tachyon modes. The gas of free IIA strings undergoes a thermal duality transition into a gas of free IIB strings at the self-dual temperature. The free heterotic string gas is a tachyon-free ensemble with gauge symmetry SO(16)$\times$SO(16) in the presence of a timelike Wilson line background. It exhibits a holographic duality relation undergoing a self-dual phase transition with positive free energy and positive specific heat. The type IB open and closed string ensemble is related by thermal duality to the type I' string ensemble. We identify the order parameter for the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition from a low temperature gas of short open strings to a high temperature long string phase at or below T_C. Note Added (Sep 2005).
dc.descriptionNote Added (Sep 2005)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208112
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208112
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/76864
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleFinite Temperature Gases of Fermionic Strings
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