SUPERMEMBRANES AT NONZERO TEMPERATURE

Citation
Aa. Bytsenko et Sd. Odintsov, SUPERMEMBRANES AT NONZERO TEMPERATURE, Fortschritte der Physik, 41(3), 1993, pp. 233-260
Citations number
100
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00158208
Volume
41
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
233 - 260
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-8208(1993)41:3<233:SANT>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We review the thermodynamical properties of the (super)membranes in ca nonical ensemble. The free energy for flat supermembranes and for comp actified supermembranes is calculated in semiclassical approximation. The corresponding extension for super-p-branes is also presented. The presence of the Hagedorn temperature which depends on the cut-off para meter is found. It is shown that the free energy for (super)membranes can be presented in modular invariant form (SL(2, Z) invariance). Some connected problems (the calculation of the static potential, the prob able dual symmetry) for bosonic p-brane are also discussed.