On the relevance of tachyons

Abstract

We study condensation of open string tachyons using renormalization group flow in the worldsheet field theory. This approach leads to a simple picture of the physics of the nontrivial condensate.

arXiv comment11 pages, harvmac; minor changes, references added

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