Closed string tachyon potential and tt^* equation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.03.069zbMATH Open1247.81390arXivhep-th/0412247OpenAlexW2093671020MaRDI QIDQ451692FDOQ451692

Sang-Jin Sin, Sunggeun Lee

Publication date: 23 September 2012

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

Abstract: Recently Dabholkar and Vafa proposed that closed string tachyon potential for non-supersymmetric orbifold $$ in terms of the solution of a $t{t}^{*}$ equation. We extend this result to $$ for $n=3,4,5$. Interestingly, the tachyon potentials for $n=3$ and 4 are still given in terms of the solutions of Painleve III type equation that appeared in the study of $$ with different boundary conditions. For $$ case, governing equations are of generalized Toda type. The potential is monotonically decreasing function of RG flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412247

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb C/Z_3\)\(tt^*\) equationclosed string tachyon potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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Cited In (2)

• The equation of the \(p\)-adic closed strings for the scalar tachyon field
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