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 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 , solutions to affine toda equations determine the action. We study the particular case of 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