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In this paper we discuss near-Hagedorn string thermodynamics starting from the explicit path integral derivation found by [1]. Their result is extended and the validity is checked by comparing with some known exact results. We compare this approach with the first-quantized one-loop result from the field theory action and establish correction terms to the above result.
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Mertens, T.G., Verschelde, H. & Zakharov, V.I. Near-Hagedorn thermodynamics and random walks: a general formalism in curved backgrounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 127 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2014)127
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