The thermal scalar and random walks in AdS₃ and BTZ

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2014)156zbMATH Open1333.81296arXiv1402.2808MaRDI QIDQ270752FDOQ270752

Henri Verschelde, Thomas G. Mertens, Valentine I. Zakharov

Publication date: 7 April 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze near-Hagedorn thermodynamics of strings in the WZW $Ad{S}_3$ model. We compute the thermal spectrum of all primaries and find the thermal scalar explicitly in the string spectrum using CFT twist techniques. Then we use the link to the Euclidean WZW BTZ black hole and write down the Euclidean BTZ spectrum. We give a Hamiltonian interpretation of the thermal partition function of angular orbifolds where we find a reappearance of discrete states that dominate the partition function. Using these results, we discuss the nature of the thermal scalar in the WZW BTZ model. As a slight generalization of the angular orbifolds, we discuss the $Ad{S}_3$ string gas with a non-zero chemical potential corresponding to angular momentum around the spatial cigar. For this model as well, we determine the thermal spectrum and the Hagedorn temperature as a function of chemical potential. Finally the nature of $alph{a}^{\prime }$ corrections to the $Ad{S}_3$ thermal scalar action is analyzed and we find the random walk behavior of highly excited strings in this particular $Ad{S}_3$ background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2808

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zbMATH Keywords

black holes in string theoryconformal field models in string theorylong stringstachyon condensation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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