Stringy tachyonic instabilities of non-supersymmetric Ricci flat backgrounds

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2021)026zbMath1462.83060arXiv2010.02933MaRDI QIDQ2032464

Eduardo Andrés, Ida G. Zadeh, Kumar S. Narain, Anamaría Font, Gerardo Aldazabal, Bobby Samir Acharya

Publication date: 11 June 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02933

zbMATH Keywords

tachyon condensationsigma modelsconformal field models in string theorysuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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