On the relevance of tachyons

2000/03/13 by J. A. Harvey, Jeffrey A. Harvey, David Kutasov +6 · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0003101

11 pages, harvmac; minor changes, references added

arxiv created 2000/04/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We study condensation of open string tachyons using renormalization group flow in the worldsheet field theory. This approach leads to a simple picture of the physics of the nontrivial condensate.

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