Behavior of boundary string field theory associated with integrable massless flow

Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Jun 4;86(23):5235-8. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5235.

Abstract

We put forward an idea that the boundary entropy associated with integrable massless flow of thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) is identified with tachyon action of boundary string field theory. We show that the temperature parametrizing a massless flow in the TBA formalism can be identified with tachyon energy for the classical action at least near the ultraviolet fixed point, i.e., the open string vacuum.