On Closed String Tachyon Dynamics
摘要
We study the condensation of closed string tachyons as a time-dependent process. In particular, we study tachyons whose wave functions are either space-filling or localized in a compact space, and whose masses are small in string units; our analysis is otherwise general and does not depend on any specific model. Using world-sheet methods, we calculate the equations of motion for the coupled tachyon-dilaton system, and show that the tachyon follows geodesic motion with respect to the Zamolodchikov metric, subject to a force proportional to its beta function and friction proportional to the time derivative of the dilaton. We study the relationship between world-sheet RG flow and the solutions to our equations, finding a close relationship in the case that the spatial theory is supercritical and the dilaton has a negative time derivative.
引用
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0510126,
title = {On Closed String Tachyon Dynamics},
author = {Daniel Z. Freedman and Matthew Headrick and Albion Lawrence},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0510126},
year = {2009}
}
备注
27 pages in body, 42 pages total; v2: exposition improved, references added; v3: comment added on localized tachyons, reference added, published version