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Quantum State Density and Critical Temperature in M-theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We discuss the asymptotic properties of quantum states density for fundamental pp-branes which can yield a microscopic interpretation of the thermodynamic quantities in M-theory. The matching of BPS part of spectrum for superstring and supermembrane gives the possibility of getting membrane's results via string calculations. In the weak coupling limit of M-theory the critical behavior coincides with the first order phase transition in standard string theory at temperature less than the Hagedorn's temperature THT_H. The critical temperature at large coupling constant is computed by considering M-theory on manifold with topology R9mathbbT2{\mathbb R}^9\otimes{mathbb T}^2. Alternatively we argue that any finite temperature can be introduced in the framework of membrane thermodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301239,
  title  = {Quantum State Density and Critical Temperature in M-theory},
  author = {M. C. B. Abdalla and A. A. Bytsenko and B. M. Pimentel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301239},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A16(2001)2249

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