String Perturbation Theory Around Dynamically Shifted Vacuum
arXiv:1404.6254 · doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2014)070
Abstract
In some string theories, e.g. SO(32) heterotic string theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds, a massless field with a tree level potential can acquire a tachyonic mass at the one loop level, forcing us to quantize the theory around a new background that is not a solution to the classical equations of motion and hence is not described by a conformally invariant world-sheet theory. We describe a systematic procedure for carrying out string perturbation theory around such backgrounds.
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