Thermodynamics of 2D string theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We calculate the free energy, energy and entropy in the matrix quantum mechanical formulation of 2D string theory in a background strongly perturbed by tachyons with the imaginary Minkowskian momentum (``Sine-Liouville'' theory). The system shows a thermodynamical behaviour corresponding to the temperature . We show that the microscopically calculated energy of the system satisfies the usual thermodynamical relations and leads to a non-zero entropy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210251,
title = {Thermodynamics of 2D string theory},
author = {Sergei Yu. Alexandrov and Vladimir A. Kazakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210251},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, lanlmac; typos corrected