Localized Tachyons and the gcl conjecture
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We consider C/ZN and C/ZN orbifolds of heterotic string theories and ZN orbifolds of AdS3. We study theories with N=2 worldsheet superconformal invariance and construct RG flows. Following Harvey, Kutasov, Martinec and Moore, we compute gcl and show that it decreases monotonically along RG flowsas conjectured by them. For the heterotic string theories, the gauge degrees of freedom do not contribute to the computation of gcl.
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