New Geometric Approaches to Finite Temperature String Theory

In quantum field theory a system at finite temperature can equivalently be viewed as having a compactified dimension. This situation carries over into string theory and leads to thermal duality, which relates the physics of closed strings at temperature T to the physics at the inverse temperature 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lennek, Michael
Other Authors: Dienes, Keith R
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193803