2000/05/12 by Micha Berkooz, Moshe Rozali · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/05/040
published as JHEP 0005 (2000) 040 · 37 pages, important signs in section 6.4 corrected, references added
arxiv created 2000/05/12 · openalex publication_date 2000/05/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We analyze the thermodynamics of NS 5-branes as the temperature approaches the NS 5-branes' Hagedorn temperature, and conclude that the dynamics of ``Little String Theory'' is a new universality class of interacting strings. First we point out how to vary the temperature of the near extremal solution by taking into account gs corrections. The Hagedorn temperature is shown to be a limiting temperature for the theory. We then compare the thermodynamics to that of a toy model made of free strings and find basic discrepancies. This suggests a need for a new class of string interactions. We suggest that this new universality class is characterized by a strong attractive self-intersection interaction, which causes strings to be coiled. This model might also explain why ``Little String Theories'' exist in at most 5+1 dimensions.