Tachyon mass, c-function and counting localized degrees of freedom

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00433-9zbMATH Open0996.81082arXivhep-th/0202097OpenAlexW3098613657MaRDI QIDQ1606155FDOQ1606155

Authors: Sang-Jin Sin 

Publication date: 24 July 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the localized tachyon condensation in the non-supersymmetric orbifold theories by taking the cosmological constant as the measure of degrees of freedom (d.o.f). We first show asymptotic density of state is not a proper quantity to count the 'localized' d.o.f. We then show that localized d.o.f lead us a c-function given by the lightest tachyon mass, which turns out to be the same as the tachyon potential recently suggested by Dabholkar and Vafa. We also argue that delocalized d.o.f also encode information on the process of localized tachyon condensation in the g-function, based on the fact that the global geometry of the orbifolds is completely determined by the local geometry around the fixed points. For type II, both c- and g-function respect the stability of the supersymmetric models and both allow all the process suggested by Adams, Polchinski and Silverstein.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202097

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantlocalized tachyon condensationnon-supersymmetric orbifold theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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