TH Duality Workshop

Aspects of super Yang-Mills thermodynamics

Name: Aspects of super Yang-Mills thermodynamics
Start: 1999-10-12T11:00:00+02:00
End: 1999-10-12T11:15:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by M. VAZQUEZ-MOZO (ITF, Amsterdam University & Spinoza Institute, Utrecht University)

Tuesday 12 Oct 1999, 11:00 → 11:15 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description

I will study the thermodynamics of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories by computing the two-loop correction to the canonical free energy and to the equation of state for theories with 16, 8 and 4 supercharges and the first non-analytic contribution in the 't Hooft coupling to the free energy in four dimensions, arising from the resummation of ring diagrams. To conclude, I will discuss some applications to the study of the Hagedorn transition in string theory in the context of Matrix strings and speculate on the possible physical meaning of the transition.