%0 Journal Article %T Thermodynamics of abelian forms in real compact hyperbolic spaces %A Bytsenko %A A. A. %A Mendes %A V. S. %A Tort %A A. C. %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2004 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332004000600010 %X we analyze gauge theories based on abelian p-forms in real compact hyperbolic manifolds. the explicit thermodynamic functions associated with skew-symmetric tensor fields are obtained via zeta-function regularization and the trace tensor kernel formula. thermodynamic quantities in the high-temperature expansions are calculated and the entropy/energy ratios are established. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332004000600010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en