On the asymptotic density of states in solvable models of strings

Abstract

We present a closed formula for the asymptotic density of states for a class of solvable superstring models on curved backgrounds. The result accounts for the effects of the curvature of the target space in a concise way.

arXiv commentLaTeX, 48 pages, 4 figures; v2: improvements in the computation method and results, new section about the consequences on string thermodynamics added; v3: typos corrected

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