On Condensation of Closed-string Tachyons
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-26 v1
Abstract
An F-theory dual of a nonsupersymmetric orientifold is considered. It is argued that the condensation of both open and closed string tachyons in the orientifold corresponds to the annihilation of branes and anti-branes in the F-theory dual. The end-point of tachyon condensation is thus expected to be the vacuum of Type-IIB superstring. Some speculations are presented about the F-theory dual of the bosonic string and tachyon condensation thereof.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0109019,
title = {On Condensation of Closed-string Tachyons},
author = {Atish Dabholkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0109019},
year = {2015}
}
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16 pages, 2 figures, harvmac(b)