PIRSA:07120039

Video URL

https://pirsa.org/07120039

Alternative Worldsheet Gauges and Closed-String Tachyon Condensation

Keeler, C. (2007). Alternative Worldsheet Gauges and Closed-String Tachyon Condensation. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/07120039

Keeler, Cynthia. Alternative Worldsheet Gauges and Closed-String Tachyon Condensation. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dec. 07, 2007, https://pirsa.org/07120039 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:07120039,
            doi = {10.48660/07120039},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/07120039},
            author = {Keeler, Cynthia},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Alternative Worldsheet Gauges and Closed-String Tachyon Condensation},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2007},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:07120039 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/07120039}}
          }

Cynthia Keeler University of California

Talk numberPIRSA:07120039
DOI10.48660/07120039
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Talk Type Conference
Subject

Abstract

Alternative gauge choices for worldsheet supersymmetry can elucidate dynamical phenomena obscured in the usual superconformal guage. In the particular example of the tachyonic E_8 heterotic string, we use a judicious gauge choice to show that the process of closed-string tachyon condensation can be understood in terms of a worldsheet super-Higgs effect. The worldsheet gravitino assimilates the goldstino and becomes a dynamical propagating field. Conformal, but not superconformal, invariance is maintained throughout.