String Propagation in a Tachyon Background
- 23 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (25), 2664-2667
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.2664
Abstract
The equation of motion of the tachyon field is obtained by requiring conformal invariance of the closed bosonic string propagator in a tachyon background. The cubic tachyon coupling is also obtained in this way. These equations are generalizations of the Kosterlitz-Thouless flow equations and involve nonperturbative contributions to the functions.
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