Finite temperature bosonic closed strings: Thermal duality and the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

Physical Review D

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Chaudhuri, Shyamoli ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; GAS; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VACUUM;

EID: 0037088141     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.066008     Document Type: Article

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