High Temperature Partition Function of the Rigid String
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-09 v1
Abstract
We find that the high temperature limit of the free energy per unit length for the rigid string agrees dimensionally with that of the QCD string (unlike the Nambu-Goto string). The sign, and in fact the phase, do not agree. While this may be a clue to a string theory of QCD, we note that the problem of the fourth derivative action makes it impossible for the rigid string to be a correct description.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9205043,
title = {High Temperature Partition Function of the Rigid String},
author = {Joseph Polchinski and Zhu Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9205043},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages