Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory
Abstract We investigate Wilsonian effective field theory as a model for the construction of the tachyon potential and nonperturbative vacua in closed string field theory. In a number of cases we are able to find the effective potential exactly, and observe what appear to be universal features. We fi...
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| description | Abstract We investigate Wilsonian effective field theory as a model for the construction of the tachyon potential and nonperturbative vacua in closed string field theory. In a number of cases we are able to find the effective potential exactly, and observe what appear to be universal features. We find that the effective field theory contains the same nonperturbative vacuum structure as the bare Lagrangian, though this information is encoded less efficiently as the distance scale of the effective field theory is increased. The implication is that closed string field theory plausibly contains information about the nonperturbative vacuum structure of string theory, in spite of its similarities to effective field theory. We also truncate the effective potential at a fixed power of the field and investigate how the global structure of the effective potential may be approximated via Padé resummation. Qualitative comparisons suggest that computation of the eighth to sixteenth order closed string vertex should be enough to obtain reliable results for the closed string field theory action evaluated on the tachyon field. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-65fa4f45cee84c2f85003c3ffa1fb1852024-03-05T17:27:39ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792024-02-012024213610.1007/JHEP02(2024)018Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theoryTheodore Erler0Atakan Hilmi Fırat1CEICO, FZU — Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of SciencesCenter for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract We investigate Wilsonian effective field theory as a model for the construction of the tachyon potential and nonperturbative vacua in closed string field theory. In a number of cases we are able to find the effective potential exactly, and observe what appear to be universal features. We find that the effective field theory contains the same nonperturbative vacuum structure as the bare Lagrangian, though this information is encoded less efficiently as the distance scale of the effective field theory is increased. The implication is that closed string field theory plausibly contains information about the nonperturbative vacuum structure of string theory, in spite of its similarities to effective field theory. We also truncate the effective potential at a fixed power of the field and investigate how the global structure of the effective potential may be approximated via Padé resummation. Qualitative comparisons suggest that computation of the eighth to sixteenth order closed string vertex should be enough to obtain reliable results for the closed string field theory action evaluated on the tachyon field.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)018Effective Field TheoriesString Field TheoryTachyon Condensation |
| spellingShingle | Theodore Erler Atakan Hilmi Fırat Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory Journal of High Energy Physics Effective Field Theories String Field Theory Tachyon Condensation |
| title | Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory |
| title_full | Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory |
| title_fullStr | Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory |
| title_short | Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory |
| title_sort | wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory |
| topic | Effective Field Theories String Field Theory Tachyon Condensation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)018 |
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