Resolution of Hagedorn singularity in superstrings with gravito-magnetic fluxes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.10.010zbMATH Open1192.81250arXiv0808.1357OpenAlexW1975250492MaRDI QIDQ985853FDOQ985853

Authors: Carlo Angelantonj, Costas Kounnas, Hervé Partouche, Nicolaos Toumbas 

Publication date: 6 August 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider closed type II and orientifold backgrounds where supersymmetry is spontaneously broken by asymmetric geometrical fluxes. We show that these can be used to describe thermal ensembles with chemical potentials associated to "gravito-magnetic" fluxes. The thermal free energy is computed at the one-loop string level, and it is shown to be free of the usual Hagedorn-like instabilities for a certain choice of the chemical potentials. In the closed string gravitational sector, as well as in the open string matter sector of the proposed orientifold construction, the free energy turns out to have "Temperature duality" symmetry, $calF(T/T_H)=T^{2}over{T}_H^{2}calF(T_H/T)$, which requires interchanging the space-time spinor representations $SleftrightarrowC$. For small temperatures, $To0$, the anti-spinor $C$ decouples from the spectrum while for large temperatures, $Toinfty$, the spinor $S$ decouples. In both limits the free energy vanishes, as we recover a conventional type II superstring theory. At the self dual point $T=T_H$, the thermal spectra of $S$ and $C$ are identical. Moreover, there are extra massless scalars in the adjoint representation of an SO(4) non-abelian gauge symmetry in the closed-string sector, and open-string massless states charged simultaneously under both the Chan-Paton and the closed-string SO(4) gauge group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1357

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zbMATH Keywords

chemical potentials, free energythermal ensemblestype II superstring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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