Closed-String Tachyon Condensation and the Worldsheet Super-Higgs Effect
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300 (United States)
Alternative gauge choices for worldsheet supersymmetry can elucidate dynamical phenomena obscured in the usual superconformal gauge. In the particular example of the tachyonic E{sub 8} heterotic string, we use a judicious gauge choice to show that the process of closed-string tachyon condensation can be understood in terms of a worldsheet super-Higgs effect. The worldsheet gravitino assimilates the goldstino and becomes a dynamical propagating field. Conformal, but not superconformal, invariance is maintained throughout.
- OSTI ID:
- 21024704
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.051601; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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