Flux-vacua in two dimensional string theory

2005/06/17 by Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/077

published as JHEP 0509:077,2005 · 41 pages, 4 figures, harvmac.tex

arxiv created 2005/06/17 · openalex publication_date 2005/09/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We analyze the two dimensional type 0 theory with background RR-fluxes. Both the 0A and the 0B theory have two distinct fluxes q and q. We study these two theories at finite temperature (compactified on a Euclidean circle of radius R) as a function of the fluxes, the tachyon condensate μ and the radius R. Surprisingly, the dependence on q, q and μ is rather simple. The partition function is the absolute value square of a holomorphic function of y=|q|+| q| + i √(2α') μ (up to a simple but interesting correction). As expected, the 0A and the 0B answers are related by T-duality. Our answers are derived using the exact matrix models description of these systems and are interpreted in the low energy spacetime Lagrangian.

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