Thermodynamics of spinning D3-branes

Spinning black 3-branes in type IIB supergravity are thermodynamically stable up to a critical value of the angular momentum density. inside the region of thermodynamic stability, the free energy from supegravity is roughly reproduced by a naive model based on free N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory on the world-volume. The field theory model correctly predicts a limit on angular momentum density, but near this limit it does not reproduce the critical exponents one can compute from supergravity, Analogies with Bose condensation and modified matrix models are discussed, and a mean field theory improvement of the naive model is suggested which corrects the critical exponents. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.