Non-critical Poincaré invariant bosonic string backgrounds and closed string tachyons Original Research Article

A new family of non critical bosonic string backgrounds in arbitrary space–time dimension D and with ISO(1,D−2) Poincaré invariance are presented. The metric warping factor and dilaton agree asymptotically with the linear dilaton background. The closed string tachyon equation of motion enjoys, in the linear approximation, an exact solution of “kink” type interpolating between different expectation values. A renormalization group flow interpretation, based on a closed string tachyon potential of type −T2e−T, is suggested.