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Entropy and thermodynamic limits in M-theory
Fecha
2004-01-01Registro en:
Qfext'03: Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions, Proceedings. Princeton: Rinton Press, Inc., p. 373-380, 2004.
WOS:000224078900051
Autor
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Institución
Resumen
The matching of the BPS part of the (super) membrane's spectrum enables one to obtain membrane's results via string calculations. We compute the thermodynamic behavior at large coupling constant by considering M-theory on a manifold with topology T-2 X R-9. In the small coupling limit of M-theory the entropy coincides with the standard entropy of type IIB strings. We claim that the finite temperature partition functions associated with BPS p-brane spectrum can be analytically continued to well-defined functionals. This means that finite temperature can be introduced in brane theory. For the point particle limit (p --> 0) the entropy has the standard behavior of thermodynamic quantities.