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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 ±i/R\pm i/R (``Sine-Liouville'' theory). The system shows a thermodynamical behaviour corresponding to the temperature T=1/(2πR)T=1/(2\pi R). We show that the microscopically calculated energy of the system satisfies the usual thermodynamical relations and leads to a non-zero entropy.

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@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

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