Strings and D-Branes at High Temperature
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
The thermodynamics of a gas of strings and D-branes near the Hagedorn transition is described by a coupled set of Boltzmann equations for weakly interacting open and closed long strings. The resulting distributions are dominated by the open string sector, indicating that D-branes grow to fill space at high temperature.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9707167,
title = {Strings and D-Branes at High Temperature},
author = {Sangmin Lee and Larus Thorlacius},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9707167},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure