Published August 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

Modular invariance for interacting bosonic strings at finite temperature

  • 1. Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Dept. of Physics

Description

We study the finite temperature string path integral introduced by Polchinski. It is shown that on an arbitrary genus world sheet all windings of the fields around the compact time direction can be rotated into a single cycle. The modular invariance of this result is demonstrated. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Commun. Math. Phys.
Journal Volume
111
Journal Issue
4
Series
Commun. Math. Phys.
Journal Page Range
539-554
ISSN
0010-3616
CODEN
CMPHA

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant NSF 8605978; NSF 8405648