Chaotic and Thermal Aspects in the String S-Matrix

Abstract: We compute tree level scattering amplitudes involving more than one highly excited states in bosonic string theory. We use these amplitudes to understand chaotic and thermal aspects of the excited string states lending support to the Susskind-Horowitz- Polchinski correspondence principle. The unaveraged amplitudes exhibit chaos in the resonance distribution as a function of kinematic parameters, which can be described by random matrix theory. Upon coarse-graining these amplitudes exponentiate, and give certain thermal indications.

HEP - theory

Audience: researchers in the topic

Theoretical Physics Seminars (Kentucky)