Universal Thermal Instabilities and the High-Temperature Phase of the N=4 Superstrings
| dc.creator | Kounnas, Costas | |
| dc.date | 1999-02-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:25:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:25:57Z | |
| dc.description | Using the properties of gauged N=4 supergravity, we show that it is possible to derive a universal thermal effective potential that describes all possible high-temperature instabilities of the known N=4 superstrings. These instabilities are due to non-perturbative dyonic modes, which become tachyonic in a region of the thermal moduli space M={s,t,u}; M is common to all non-perturbative dual-equivalent N=4 superstrings in five dimensions. We analyse the non-perturbative thermal potential and show the existence of a phase transition at high temperatures corresponding to a condensation of 5-branes. This phase is described in detail, using an effective non-critical string theory. | |
| dc.description | 15 pages, LATEX file, no figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9902072 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9902072 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55932 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Universal Thermal Instabilities and the High-Temperature Phase of the N=4 Superstrings | |
| dc.type | text |