We study IIA/B string theory compactified on twisted circles. These models possess closed string tachyons and reduce to type-0B/A theory in a special limit. Using methods of gauged linear sigma models and mirror symmetry we construct a conformal field theory which interpolates between these models and flat space via an auxiliary Liouville direction. Interpreting motion in the Liouville direction as renormalization group flow, we argue that the end point of tachyon condensation in all these models (including 0B/A theory) is supersymmetric type-II theory. We also find a zero-slope limit of these models which is best described in a T-dual picture as a type-II NS-NS fluxbrane. In this limit tachyon condensation is an interesting and well posed ...
Using boundary string field theory we study the decay of unstable D-branes to lower dimensional D-br...
This thesis examines the interaction of both bosonic and superstrings with various backgrounds with ...
We construct a class of CFT's which describe space-dependent closed string tachyon backgrounds, as t...
We study several aspects of the classical (gs → 0) limit of string theory. The first of these e...
We study the evolution of stable D-branes of C/Z_n and twisted circle theories in the process of clo...
We consider closed string tachyons localized at the fixed points of noncompact nonsupersymmetric orb...
We discuss the fate of certain tachyonic closed string theories from two perspectives. In both cases...
We study the evolution of stable D-branes of C/Zn and twisted circle theories in the process of clos...
This thesis consists of three different parts, each of which explores a particular aspect of string ...
In superstring theory of type II, the separated brane-antibrane pair admits a bi-fundamental tachyon...
These notes are an expanded version of a review lecture on closed string tachyon condensation at the...
This thesis examines the interaction of both bosonic- and superstrings with various backgrounds wit...
These notes are an expanded version of a review paper on closed string tachyon condensation at the R...
We find an interesting connection between perturbative large N gauge theory and closed superstrings....
We study the localized tachyon condensation of non-supersymmetric orbifold back-grounds in their mir...
Using boundary string field theory we study the decay of unstable D-branes to lower dimensional D-br...
This thesis examines the interaction of both bosonic and superstrings with various backgrounds with ...
We construct a class of CFT's which describe space-dependent closed string tachyon backgrounds, as t...
We study several aspects of the classical (gs → 0) limit of string theory. The first of these e...
We study the evolution of stable D-branes of C/Z_n and twisted circle theories in the process of clo...
We consider closed string tachyons localized at the fixed points of noncompact nonsupersymmetric orb...
We discuss the fate of certain tachyonic closed string theories from two perspectives. In both cases...
We study the evolution of stable D-branes of C/Zn and twisted circle theories in the process of clos...
This thesis consists of three different parts, each of which explores a particular aspect of string ...
In superstring theory of type II, the separated brane-antibrane pair admits a bi-fundamental tachyon...
These notes are an expanded version of a review lecture on closed string tachyon condensation at the...
This thesis examines the interaction of both bosonic- and superstrings with various backgrounds wit...
These notes are an expanded version of a review paper on closed string tachyon condensation at the R...
We find an interesting connection between perturbative large N gauge theory and closed superstrings....
We study the localized tachyon condensation of non-supersymmetric orbifold back-grounds in their mir...
Using boundary string field theory we study the decay of unstable D-branes to lower dimensional D-br...
This thesis examines the interaction of both bosonic and superstrings with various backgrounds with ...
We construct a class of CFT's which describe space-dependent closed string tachyon backgrounds, as t...