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Massless radiation from heavy rotating string and Kerr/string correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-04 v2

Abstract

We calculate emission rates of a massless state from a highly excited rotating string in perturbative bosonic open string theory. By averaging huge degeneracies of initial string states with specifying the mass and a single component of the angular momentum, we find thermal spectrum in a wide range of the angular momentum. We derive the temperature that characterizes the thermal spectrum from the partition function of a single rotating string from which we also find the entropy and the angular velocity of rotating strings. We also argue based on these quantities the Horowitz-Polchinski correspondence principle between rotating strings/Kerr black holes for non-extremal as well as extremal cases. In the parameter region where the Kerr black holes exist, the thermal spectrum is comparable to scalar emissions from a rotating black hole.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0909.1617,
  title  = {Massless radiation from heavy rotating string and Kerr/string correspondence},
  author = {Toshihiro Matsuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1617},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages, minor corrections, version to appear in Nucl.Phys. B

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