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On the relevance of tachyons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We study condensation of open string tachyons using renormalization group flow in the worldsheet field theory. This approach leads to a simple picture of the physics of the nontrivial condensate.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0003101,
  title  = {On the relevance of tachyons},
  author = {J. A. Harvey and D. Kutasov and E. J. Martinec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0003101},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, harvmac; minor changes, references added