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Localized tachyons in Bbb C3/Bbb ZN

David R. Morrison1, K. Narayan1 and M. Ronen Plesser1

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We study the condensation of localized closed string tachyons in Bbb C3/Bbb ZN 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.


Keywords

Tachyon Condensation

Renormalization Group

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0406039

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PACS

14.80.-j Other particles (including hypothetical)

02.40.-k Geometry, differential geometry, and topology

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

11.10.Gh Renormalization

11.30.Rd Chiral symmetries

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 08 (August 2004)

Received 16 June 2004, accepted for publication 23 August 2004

Published 1 October 2004



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