Orientifolds, renormalization-group flows and closed string tachyons

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/5/323zbMATH Open0952.81036arXivhep-th/9907038OpenAlexW1988982428MaRDI QIDQ4499358FDOQ4499358

Authors: Jason Kumar, Eva Silverstein, Shamit Kachru 

Publication date: 30 August 2000

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the fate of certain tachyonic closed string theories from two perspectives. In both cases our approach involves studying directly configurations with finite negative tree-level cosmological constant. Closed string analogues of orientifolds, which carry negative tension, are argued to represent the minima of the tachyon potential in some cases. In other cases, we make use of the fact, noted in the early string theory literature, that strings can propagate on spaces of subcritical dimension at the expense of introducing a tree-level cosmological constant. The form of the tachyon vertex operator in these cases makes it clear that a subcritical-dimension theory results from tachyon condensation. Using results of Kutasov, we argue that in some Scherk-Schwarz models, for finely-tuned tachyon condensates, a minimal model CFT times a subcritical dimension theory results. In some instances, these two sets of ideas may be related by duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9907038

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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