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tt* Geometry and Closed String Tachyon Potential

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We propose a closed string tachyon action including kinetic and potential terms for non-supersymmetric orbifolds. The action is given in terms of solutions to tttt^* equations which captures the geometry of vacua of the corresponding N=2 worldsheet theory. In certain cases the solutions are well studied. In case of tachyons of C/Zn{\bf C}/Z_n, solutions to affine toda equations determine the action. We study the particular case of C/Z3C{\bf C}/Z_3\to {\bf C} in detail and find that the Tachyon action is determined in terms of a solution to Painleve III equation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0111155,
  title  = {tt* Geometry and Closed String Tachyon Potential},
  author = {Atish Dabholkar and Cumrun Vafa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0111155},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages