1999/08/20 by I. Antoniadis, Antoniadis, I., J. -P. Derendinger +5
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9908137
21 pages. Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics, Corfu, Greece, September 1998
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We obtain the non-perturbative effective potential for the dual five-dimensional N=4 strings in the context of finite-temperature regarded as a breaking of supersymmetry into four space-time dimensions. Using the properties of gauged N=4 supergravity we derive the universal thermal effective potential describing all possible high-temperature instabilities of the known N=4 superstrings. These strings undergo a high-temperature transition to a new phase in which five-branes condense. This phase is described in detail, using both the effective supergravity and non-critical string theory in six dimensions. In the new phase, supersymmetry is perturbatively restored but broken at the non-perturbative level.