Five-Brane Thermodynamics from the Matrix Model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
A certain sector of the matrix model for M-theory on a plane wave background has recently been shown to produce the transverse five-brane. We consider this theory at finite temperature. We find that, at a critical temperature it has a Gross-Witten phase transition which corresponds to deconfinement of the matrix model gauge theory. We interpret the phase transition as the Hagedorn transition of M-theory and of type II string theory in the five-brane background. We also show that there is no Hagedorn behaviour in the transverse membrane background case.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310286,
title = {Five-Brane Thermodynamics from the Matrix Model},
author = {K. Furuuchi and E. Schreiber and G. W. Semenoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310286},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
1+34 pages, JHEP style. v2: typos, refs corrected