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A temperature correction to the tachyon, using the Casimir effect

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-03-02 v6

Abstract

We find the free energy of the string by applying the known Matsubara formalism. Then through the Casimir effect we offer a temperature correction to the tachyon mass of the string. We see that for the fermionic part the temperature correction is precisely the opposite of that of bosonic part, so the quantum ground state of the superstring would remain massless, as expected.

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@article{arxiv.1312.4806,
  title  = {A temperature correction to the tachyon, using the Casimir effect},
  author = {Y. Koohsarian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4806},
  year   = {2017}
}

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This paper has been withdrawn by the author, this is in fact an old version of a paper which has been recently announced in arXive

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