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Evidence for Winding States in Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We study noncommutative field theories at finite temperature to learn more about the degrees of freedom in the non-planar sector of these systems. We find evidence for winding states. At temperatures for which the thermal wavelength is smaller than the noncommutativity scale, there is a drastic reduction of the degrees of freedom in the non-planar sector. In this regime, the non-planar sector has thermodynamics resembling that of a 1+1 dimensional field theory.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002067,
  title  = {Evidence for Winding States in Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory},
  author = {W. Fischler and Joaquim Gomis and E. Gorbatov and A. Kashani-Poor and S. Paban and P. Pouliot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002067},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures. Typos corrected and minor clarifications added