{
  "id": "hep-th/0510098",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2005-10-12T13:30:05.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-10-25T13:36:43.000Z",
  "title": "Thermodynamics of the Near-Extremal NS5-brane",
  "authors": [
    "T. Harmark",
    "N. A. Obers"
  ],
  "comment": "22 pages, 6 figures. v2: Added clarifying remarks on relation to previous work on thermodynamics of NS5-brane. Refs added",
  "journal": "Nucl.Phys.B742:41-58,2006",
  "doi": "10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.01.045",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We consider the thermodynamics of the near-extremal NS5-brane in type IIA string theory. The central tool we use is to map phases of six-dimensional Kaluza-Klein black holes to phases of near-extremal M5-branes with a transverse circle in eleven-dimensional supergravity. By S-duality these phases correspond to phases of the near-extremal type IIA NS5-brane. One of our main results is that in the canonical ensemble the usual near-extremal NS5-brane background, dual to a uniformly smeared near-extremal M5-brane, is subdominant to a new background of near-extremal M5-branes localized on the transverse circle. This new stable phase has a limiting temperature, which lies above the Hagedorn temperature of the usual NS5-brane phase. We discuss the limiting temperature and compare the different behavior of the NS5-brane in the canonical and microcanonical ensembles. We also briefly comment on the thermodynamics of near-extremal Dp-branes on a transverse circle.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2005-10-25T13:36:43.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "thermodynamics",
      "near-extremal m5-brane",
      "transverse circle",
      "usual near-extremal ns5-brane background",
      "near-extremal type iia ns5-brane"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Elsevier",
      "journal": "Nucl. Phys. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 22,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 694902
    }
  }
}