David R. Morrison et al JHEP08(2004)047 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/047
David R. Morrison1, K. Narayan1 and M. Ronen Plesser1
Show affiliationsWe study the condensation of localized closed string tachyons in
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N nonsupersymmetric noncompact orbifold singularities via renormalization group flows that preserve supersymmetry in the worldsheet conformal field theory and their interrelations with the toric geometry of these orbifolds. We show that for worldsheet supersymmetric tachyons, the endpoint of tachyon condensation generically includes ``geometric'' terminal singularities (orbifolds that do not have any marginal or relevant Kähler blowup modes) as well as singularities in codimension two. Some of the various possible distinct geometric resolutions are related by flip transitions. For type-II theories, we show that the residual singularities that arise under tachyon condensation in various classes of type-II theories also admit a type-II GSO projection. We further show that type-II orbifolds entirely devoid of marginal or relevant blowup modes (Kähler or otherwise) cannot exist, which thus implies that the endpoints of tachyon condensation in type-II theories are always smooth spaces.
E-print Number: hep-th/0406039
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14.80.-j Other particles (including hypothetical)
02.40.-k Geometry, differential geometry, and topology
Issue 08 (August 2004)
Received 16 June 2004, accepted for publication 23 August 2004
Published 1 October 2004
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