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arxiv: hep-th/0003101 · v2 · submitted 2000-03-13 · ✦ hep-th

On the relevance of tachyons

J. A. Harvey , D. Kutasov , E. J. Martinec This is my paper
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keywords tachyonsapproachcondensatecondensationfieldflowgroupleads
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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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