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Closed string tachyon potential and $tt^*$ equation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-12-03 v2

Abstract

Recently Dabholkar and Vafa proposed that closed string tachyon potential for non-supersymmetric orbifold \C/Z3\C/\Z_3 in terms of the solution of a tttt^* equation. We extend this result to \C2/Zn\C^2/\Z_n for n=3,4,5n=3,4,5. Interestingly, the tachyon potentials for n=3n=3 and 4 are still given in terms of the solutions of Painleve III type equation that appeared in the study of \C1/Z3\C^1/\Z_3 with different boundary conditions. For \C2/Z5\C^2/\Z_5 case, governing equations are of generalized Toda type. The potential is monotonically decreasing function of RG flow.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412247,
  title  = {Closed string tachyon potential and $tt^*$ equation},
  author = {Sunggeun Lee and Sang-Jin Sin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412247},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

15 pages, reference added. to appear in PLB