Exact null tachyons from renormalization group flows

We construct exact two-dimensional conformal field theories, corresponding to closed string tachyon and metric profiles invariant under shifts in a null coordinate, which can be constructed from any two-dimensional renormalization group flow. These solutions satisfy first order equations of motion i...

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Main Authors: Adams, Allan (Contributor), Lawrence, Albion (Author), Swanson, Ian (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2010-03-11T16:47:45Z.
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520 |a We construct exact two-dimensional conformal field theories, corresponding to closed string tachyon and metric profiles invariant under shifts in a null coordinate, which can be constructed from any two-dimensional renormalization group flow. These solutions satisfy first order equations of motion in the conjugate null coordinate. The direction along which the tachyon varies is identified precisely with the world sheet scale, and the tachyon equations of motion are the renormalization group flow equations. 
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