The string density of states from the convolution theorem

Abstract

We study the microcanonical density of states and the thermal properties of a bosonic string gas starting from a calculation of the Helmholtz free energy in the S-representation. By adding more and more strings to the single string system, we induce that, for infinite volume, there is no negative specific heat region but a transition at a finite value of the energy per string from the low energy regime to a region of infinite specific heat at the Hagedorn temperature. Forcing the description of this phase in terms of strings gives a picture in which there is a very fat string in a sea of low energetic ones. We argue that the necessary changing of this description should not change the fact that perturbatively T H is a maximum temperature of the system.