| Abstract: | The regularized free energy of open and closed supersymmetric p-branes in (D – 1)-dimensional flat space is calculated by the method of quasiclassical quantization. The critical temperature, indicating a phase transition, is obtained. It is shown that the quantum properties of bosonic p-branes (open and closed) with p = D – 1 are identical to the properties of a massless scalar particle.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova, Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vol. 180, pp. 36–40, 1990. |
