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.
Cite
@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