The superstring Hagedorn temperature in a pp-wave background
Abstract
The thermodynamics of type IIB superstring theory in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background is studied. We compute the thermodynamic partition function for non-interacting strings exactly and the result differs slightly from previous computations. We clarify some of the issues related to the Hagedorn temperature in the limits of small and large constant RR 5-form. We study the thermodynamic behavior of strings in the case of AdS3 × S3 × T4 geometries in the presence of NS-NS and RR 3-form backgrounds. We also comment on the relationship of string thermodynamics and the thermodynamic behavior of the sector of Yang-Mills theory which is the holographic dual of the string theory.
- Publication:
-
Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/006
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0301186
- Bibcode:
- 2003JHEP...06..006G
- Keywords:
-
- String Duality Penrose limit and pp-wave background;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 22 pages, JHEP style, minor misprints corrected, some comments added