On the relevance of tachyons

D. Kutasov; E. J. Martinec; J. A. Harvey

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On the relevance of tachyons

J. A. Harvey, D. Kutasov, E. J. Martinec

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 13 Mar 2000

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The authors' main claim This approach leads to a simple picture of the physics of the nontrivial condensate.

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We study condensation of open string tachyons using renormalization group flow in the worldsheet field theory. This approach leads to a simple picture of the physics of the nontrivial condensate.

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We study condensation of open string tachyons using renormalization group flow in the worldsheet field theory. This approach leads to a simple picture of the physics of the nontrivial condensate.

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Phases Of N=2 Theories In 1+1 Dimensions With Boundary
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A charge window, −S/2 < θ/2π + q < S/2, is the necessary and sufficient condition for a B-type D-brane to admit a parallel family across a phase boundary in Abelian linear sigma models.
Rolling Tachyon
hep-th 2002-03 accept novelty 8.0 of 10

Rolling-tachyon solutions on unstable D-branes are built by inverse Wick rotation of an exactly marginal boundary deformation, and their boundary states evolve smoothly to a finite energy density or hit a singularity ...
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A supersymmetric index and K-theory argument obstructs a continuous classical connection between the Horowitz-Polchinski string solution and the small black hole in type II string theory, but not in the heterotic string.
Tachyon-massless couplings at order $\alpha'$ in bosonic string theory
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The effective action for tachyon and massless fields at order α' is derived, yielding a tachyon potential consistent with a cosine form and an AdS vacuum.
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A tachyonic AdS/QCD construction deforms the bulk geometry with a tachyon-dependent dielectric function to produce a unified running coupling from perturbative UV to nonperturbative IR regimes.

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Aspects of strings without spacetime supersymmetry
hep-th 2025-09 unverdicted novelty 2.0 of 10

A survey of tachyons and tadpoles in non-supersymmetric closed and orientifold strings, including ten-dimensional models and landscape attempts.

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This is similar to the tachyon condensation in open string theory [ref] with the preserved $O(N - 1)$- and shift-symmetry being the rotations and translations preserving the IR D-brane.

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in free theories with boundary potentials · Introduction · 0.95

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This projection is also corroborated in superstring theories [ref] and evident in the first [ref] and second [ref] quantizations in string theories [ref] .

Phenomenology of Strong Interactions -- Towards an Effective Theory for Low Energy QCD · Introduction · 0.97
The on-shell action vanishes as $T →∞$, where the boundary operators flow into the identity of the fusion algebra and the open string poles in the propagators disappear [ref] .

Aspects of strings without spacetime supersymmetry · Off-shell approaches · 0.97

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These concepts have been studied by the first quantized string theory [ref] - [ref] , by the cubic open string field theory [ref] , by the RG flow method [ref] - [ref] and more recently by the boundary string field theory [ref] - [ref] .

Rotating and Moving D-Branes in the Presence of Various Background Fields · INTRODUCTION · 0.93
For $d=2$ free bosons with boundary potentials have been studied in the context of open strings [ref] .

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in free theories with boundary potentials · Introduction · 0.96
See, for example, [ref] for works in this direction.

Phases Of N=2 Theories In 1+1 Dimensions With Boundary · D-Term Deformations And Brane-Antibrane Annihilation · 0.87

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