TY - JOUR
T1 - High-temperature strings
AU - Bowick, Mark J.
AU - Giddings, Steven B.
N1 - Funding Information:
One natural hope is that the fundamental degrees of freedom of string will become more evident in a study of string theory under extreme conditions. In this spirit significant effort has been devoted to exploring the high-energy scattering of * On leave from the Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1130. Research supported in part by the Outstanding Junior Investigator Grant DOE DE-FG02-85ER40231. Electronic mail address: Bowick @suhep.bitnet. ** Supported in part by the Harvard Society of Fellows, and by NSF contract PHY-87-14654. Electronic mail addresses: [email protected], @huhepl.bitnet, or @huhepl.harvard.edu.
PY - 1989/10/23
Y1 - 1989/10/23
N2 - The microcanonical density of states for a weakly interacting gas of strings compactified on a torus is computed in the limit of large energy, taking into account conservation of winding number and momentum. These constraints affect the high-energy form of the density of states. Using these results we discuss physical properties of the string ensemble near the Hagedorn temperature. In the free theory the Hagedorn temperature is interpreted as signaling the transition to long string dominance; in the interacting theory the system gravitationally collapses, possibly to a new phase. Formation of long strings may also be relevant to Hawking radiation and to acceleration radiation.
AB - The microcanonical density of states for a weakly interacting gas of strings compactified on a torus is computed in the limit of large energy, taking into account conservation of winding number and momentum. These constraints affect the high-energy form of the density of states. Using these results we discuss physical properties of the string ensemble near the Hagedorn temperature. In the free theory the Hagedorn temperature is interpreted as signaling the transition to long string dominance; in the interacting theory the system gravitationally collapses, possibly to a new phase. Formation of long strings may also be relevant to Hawking radiation and to acceleration radiation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90500-2
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90500-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001370835
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 325
SP - 631
EP - 646
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 3
ER -