title: p-adic string theories provide lattice Discretization to the ordinary string worldsheet.
abstract: A class of models called p-adic strings is useful in understanding the tachyonic instability of string theory. These are found to be empirically related to the ordinary strings in the p-->1 limit. We propose that these models provide discretization for the string worldsheet and argue that the limit is naturally thought of as a continuum limit in the sense of the renormalization group.
authors.affiliation: Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Allahabad 211019, India.
authors.forename: Debashis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ghoshal