Excitations of D-strings, entropy and duality

Sumit R. Das, Samir D. Mathur

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Abstract

We examine the BPS and low energy non-BPS excitations of the D-string in terms of open strings that travel on the D-string. We use this to study the energy thresholds for exciting a long D-string, for arbitrary winding number. We also compute the leading correction to the entropy from non-BPS states for a long D-string, and observe the relation of all these quantities with the corresponding quantities for the elementary string.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)103-110
Number of pages8
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume375
Issue number1-4
DOIs
StatePublished - May 16 1996

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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