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Motivated by the appearance of associativity anomalies in the context of superstring field theory, we give a generalized solution built from boundary condition changing operators which can be associated to a generic tachyon vacuum in the KBc subalgebra of the Okawa form. We articulate sufficient conditions on the choice of tachyon vacuum to ensure that ambiguous products do not appear in the equations of motion.
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Erler, T., Maccaferri, C. & Noris, R. Taming boundary condition changing operator anomalies with the tachyon vacuum. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 27 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)027
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