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Tachyon potentials from a supersymmetric FRW model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-02-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Considering that the effective theory of closed string tachyons can have worldsheet supersymmetry, as shown by Vafa, we study a worldline supersymmetric action in a FRW background, whose superpotential originates a tachyon scalar potential. There are such potentials with spontaneously broken supersymmetry at the instability and supersymmetric after tachyon condensation. Furthermore, given a tachyonic potential, the superpotential can be computed by a power series ansatz and has a free parameter which can be chosen such that complex solutions become real.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0098,
  title  = {Tachyon potentials from a supersymmetric FRW model},
  author = {G. García-Jiménez and C. Ramírez and V. Vázquez-Báez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0098},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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