Thermodynamics of the localized D2–D6 system Original Research Article

An exact fully-localized extremal supergravity solution for image D2-branes and image D6-branes, which is dual to 3-dimensional supersymmetric image gauge theory with image fundamentals, was found by Cherkis and Hashimoto. In order to consider the thermal properties of the gauge theory we present the non-extremal extension of this solution to first order in an expansion near the core of the D6-branes. We compute the Hawking temperature and the black-brane horizon area/entropy. The leading-order entropy, which is proportional to image, is not corrected to first order in the expansion. This result is consistent with the analogous weak-coupling result at the correspondence point image.