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Closed string tachyon condensation: An Overview

May, 2004

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Part of Quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions. Proceedings, RTN Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 15-20, 2003

Published in:

Class.Quant.Grav. 21 (2004) S1539-S1565

Contribution to:

RTN Workshop on The Quantum Structure of Space-Time and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions

e-Print:

hep-th/0405064 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1088/0264-9381/21/10/027

Report number:

HUTP-04-A017,
MIT-CTP-3477

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Abstract:

These notes are an expanded version of a review lecture on closed string tachyon condensation at the RTN workshop in Copenhagen in September 2003. We begin with a lightning review of open string tachyon condensation, and then proceed to review recent results on localized closed string tachyon condensation, focusing on two simple systems, C/Z_n orbifolds and twisted circle compactifications.

lectures: Copenhagen 2003/09/15
string model
string: closed
string: open
tachyon: condensation
field theory: string
boundary condition
renormalization group: transformation
entropy
supersymmetry: symmetry breaking

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