Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: QCD strings and the thermodynamics of the metastable phase of QCD at
  large $N_c$   The thermodyanmics of a metastable hadronic phase of QCD at large $N_C$ are
related to properties of an effective QCD string. In particular, it is shown
that in the large $N_c$ limit and near the maximum hadronic temperature, $T_H$,
the energy density and pressure of the metastable phase scale as ${\cal E} \sim
(T_H-T)^{-(D_\perp-6)/2}$ (for $D_\perp <6$) and $P \sim
(T_H-T)^{-(D_\perp-4)/2}$ (for $D_\perp <4$) where $D_\perp$ is the effective
number of transverse dimensions of the string theory. It is shown, however,
that for the thermodynamic quantities of interest the limits $T \to T_H$ and
$N_c \to \infty$ do not commute. The prospect of extracting $D_\perp$ via
lattice simulations of the metastable hadronic phase at moderately large $N_c$
is discussed.

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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn