Compactified strings as quantum statistical partition function on the Jacobian torus

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.97.261601MaRDI QIDQ3107820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marco Matone, Paolo Pasti, Roberto Volpato, Sergey V. Shadchin

Publication date 26 December 2011

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607133

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We show that the solitonic contribution of compactified strings corresponds to the quantum statistical partition function of a free particle living on higher dimensional spaces. In the simplest case of a compactification in a circle, the Hamiltonian corresponds to the Laplacian on the 2g-dimensional Jacobian torus associated to the genus g Riemann surface corresponding to the string worldsheet. T-duality leads to a symmetry of the partition function mixing time and temperature. Such a classical/quantum correspondence and T-duality shed some light on the well-known interplay between time and temperature in QFT and classical statistical mechanics.

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