Temperature Dependence of String Theory in the Presence of World-Sheet Boundaries

Abstract

The effect of world-sheet boundaries on the temperature-dependence of bosonic string theory is studied to first order in string perturbation theory. The high- temperature behaviour of a theory with Dirichlet boundary conditions has features suggestive of the high-temperature limit of the confining phase of large-$n$ $SU(n)$ Yang--Mills theory, recently discussed by Polchinski.

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