Semilocalized instability of the Kaluza-Klein linear dilaton vacuum

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2006.03.024zbMATH Open1214.83031arXivhep-th/0510076OpenAlexW2089180734MaRDI QIDQ879816FDOQ879816

Authors: Oren Bergman, Shinji Hirano 

Publication date: 10 May 2007

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

Abstract: The Kaluza-Klein linear dilaton background of the bosonic string and the Scherk-Schwarz linear dilaton background of the superstring are shown to be unstable to the decay of half of spacetime. The decay proceeds via a condensation of a semi-localized tachyon when the circle is smaller than a critical size, and via a semiclassical instanton process when the circle is larger than the critical size. At criticality the two pictures are related by a duality of the corresponding two-dimensional conformal field theories. This provides a concrete realization of the connection between tachyonic and semiclassical instabilities in closed string theory, and lends strong support to the idea that non-localized closed string tachyon condensation leads to the annihilation of spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510076

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zbMATH Keywords

tachyon condensationcigarsine-Liouville model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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