The Tachyon Potential in Witten's Superstring Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-25 v2
Abstract
We study the tachyon potential in the NS sector of Witten's cubic superstring field theory. In this theory, the pure tachyon contribution to the potential has no minimum. We find that this remains the case when higher modes up to level two are included.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0004112,
title = {The Tachyon Potential in Witten's Superstring Field Theory},
author = {Pieter-Jan De Smet and Joris Raeymaekers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0004112},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Latex, 10 pages, 1 figure, published version, comments added regarding the absence of the twist-invariance and the singular behaviour of the potential