Five-Brane Thermodynamics from the Matrix Model
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A certain sector of the matrix model for M-theory on a plane wave background has recently been shown to produce the transverse five-brane. We consider this theory at finite temperature. We find that, at a critical temperature it has a Gross-Witten phase transition which corresponds to deconfinement of the matrix model gauge theory. We interpret the phase transition as the Hagedorn transition of M-theory and of type II string theory in the five-brane background. We also show that there is no Hagedorn behaviour in the transverse membrane background case.
1+34 pages, JHEP style. v2: typos, refs corrected
1+34 pages, JHEP style. v2: typos, refs corrected