Supercritical stability, transitions and (pseudo)tachyons

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2006-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612031v2

Phys.Rev.D75:046003,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

21 pages, harvmac. v2: added reference

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.046003

Highly supercritical strings (c much greater than 15) with a time-like linear dilaton provide a large class of solutions to string theory, in which closed string tachyon condensation is under control (and follows the worldsheet renormalization group flow). In this note we analyze the late-time stability of such backgrounds, including transitions between them. The large friction introduced by the rolling dilaton and the rapid decrease of the string coupling suppress the back-reaction of naive instabilities. In particular, although the graviton, dilaton, and other light fields have negative effective mass squared in the linear dilaton background, the decaying string coupling ensures that their condensation does not cause large back-reaction. Similarly, the copious particles produced in transitions between highly supercritical theories do not back-react significantly on the solution. We discuss these features also in a somewhat more general class of time-dependent backgrounds with stable late-time asymptotics.

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