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String Free Energy, Hagedorn and Gauge/String Duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-03-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We give examples of modeling the string free energy whose behavior mimics that of QCD: a power-law at high temperature and an exponential decrease at low temperature. Although the effective description is in terms of strings, no limiting temperature exists, as expected for a crossover.

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@article{arxiv.0807.1017,
  title  = {String Free Energy, Hagedorn and Gauge/String Duality},
  author = {Oleg Andreev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1017},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages; v3: discussion improved in section 2, figure and references added

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