S-brane thermodynamics
S-brane thermodynamics
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DOI:
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/048
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发表时间:
2003-02
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
A. Maloney;A. Strominger;Xi Yin
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作者:
A. Maloney;A. Strominger;Xi Yin
The description of string-theoretic s-branes at gs = 0 as exact worldsheet CFTs with a ?cosh X0 or ?e?X0 boundary interaction is considered. Due to the imaginary-time periodicity of the interaction under X0?X0+2?i, these configurations have intriguing similarities to black hole or de Sitter geometries. For example, the open string pair production as seen by an Unruh detector is thermal at temperature T = 1/4?. It is shown that, despite the rapid time dependence of the s-brane, there exists an exactly thermal mixed state of open strings. The corresponding boundary state is constructed for both the bosonic and superstring cases. This state defines a long-distance euclidean effective field theory whose light modes are confined to the s-brane. At the critical value of the coupling ? = 1/2, the boundary interaction simply generates an SU(2) rotation by ? from Neumman to Dirichlet boundary conditions. The ? = 1/2 s-brane reduces to an array of sD-branes (D-branes with a transverse time dimension) on the imaginary time axis. The long range force between a (bosonic) sD-brane and an ordinary D-brane is shown from the annulus diagram to be 11/12 times the force between two D-branes. The linearized time-dependent RR field Fp+2 = dCp+1 produced by an sDp-brane in superstring theory is explicitly computed and found to carry a half unit of s-charge Qs = ??8?p*Fp+2 = 1/2, where ?8?p is any transverse spacelike slice.