Rolling tachyons from Liouville theory
Abstract
In this work we propose an exact solution of the c = 1 Liouville model, i.e. of the world-sheet theory that describes the homogeneous decay of a closed string tachyon. Our expressions are obtained through careful extrapolation from the correlators of Liouville theory with c geq 25. In the c = 1 limit, we find two different theories which differ by the signature of Liouville field. The euclidean limit coincides with the interacting c = 1 theory that was constructed by Runkel and Watts as a limit of unitary minimal models. The couplings for the lorentzian limit are new. In contrast to the behavior at c>1, amplitudes in both c = 1 models are non-analytic in the momenta and consequently they are not related by Wick rotation.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- November 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/043
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0306026
- Bibcode:
- 2003JHEP...11..043S
- Keywords:
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- Bosonic Strings Conformal Field Models in String Theory Tachyon Condensation Boundary Quantum Field Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 22 pages