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Non-Critical Poincar\'e Invariant Bosonic String Backgrounds and Closed String Tachyons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

A new family of non critical bosonic string backgrounds in arbitrary space time dimension DD and with ISO(1,D2)ISO(1,D-2) Poincar\'e invariance are presented. The metric warping factor and dilaton agree asymptotically with the linear dilaton background. The closed string tachyon equation of motion enjoys, in the linear approximation, an exact solution of ``kink'' type interpolating between different expectation values. A renormalization group flow interpretation ,based on a closed string tachyon potential of type T2eT-T^{2}e^{-T}, is suggested.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011105,
  title  = {Non-Critical Poincar\'e Invariant Bosonic String Backgrounds and Closed String Tachyons},
  author = {E. Alvarez and C. Gomez and L. Hernandez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011105},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

latex, 16 pages, 4 figures, misprints corrected

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