tt Geometry and closed string tachyon potential

Dabholkar, Atish ; Vafa, Cumrun (2002) tt Geometry and closed string tachyon potential Journal of High Energy Physics, 2002 (2). 008_1-008_9. ISSN 1126-6708

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Official URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/1126-6708/2002/02/008

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2002/02/008

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 tt 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, solutions to affine toda equations determine the action. We study the particular case of C/Z3→C in detail and find that the Tachyon action is determined in terms of a solution to Painleve III equation.

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Keywords:Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Black Holes in String Theory
ID Code:8152
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