1999/05/06 by Yutaka Matsuo, Y. Matsuo, Matsuo, Y.
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9905044
12 pages, LaTeX file; v2 a few references added; v3 topological aspect is discussed. some terminology chage, and some references added
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By a toroidal compactification with a vortex like configuration of tachyon fields, the unoriented bosonic string in 26 dimensions becomes equivalent to 10 dimensional string theory with gauge group SO(32)× G where G has rank 16. The reduction from SO(8192) to SO(32) is induced by the action of non-abelian Wilson lines which twists the tachyon. The additional enhanced gauge symmetry G appears from closed string sector by Frenkel-Kac construction. We also examine the consistency of the tachyon condensation.