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Comments on Lumps from RG flows

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v2

Abstract

In this note we investigate the proposal of Ellwood and one of the authors et al. to construct a string field theory solution describing the endpoint of an RG flow from a reference BCFT to a target BCFT*. We show that the proposed class of solutions suffers from an anomaly in the equations of motion. Nevertheless, the gauge invariant action exactly reproduces the expected shift in energy.

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@article{arxiv.1105.6057,
  title  = {Comments on Lumps from RG flows},
  author = {Theodore Erler and Carlo Maccaferri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.6057},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

30 pages, 1 eps figure. V2: 40 pages 3 figures, presentation expanded, energy and closed string tadpole computations extended to more general class of solutions

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