Rolling tachyons and decaying branes

By F. Larsen, A. Naqvi, S. Terashima. 2002

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We present new rolling tachyon solutions describing the classical decay of D- branes. Our methods are simpler than those appearing in recent works, yet our results are exact in classical string theory. The role of pressure in the decay is studied using tachyon proflles with spatial variation. In this case the flnal state involves an array of codimension one D-branes rather than static, pressureless tachyon matter.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Y. Nakayama
2. J. Maldacena
3. T. Takayanagi
4. Andrew Strominger
5. N. Seiberg
6. Hong Liu
7. E. Witten
8. I. Klebanov

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. Y. Nakayama
2. J. Maldacena
3. T. Takayanagi
4. N. Seiberg
5. E. Witten
6. I. Klebanov
7. Hong Liu
8. Andrew Strominger

Citations in the corpus

• D-brane Decay in Two-Dimensional String Theory (2003, background): “A more detailed study of Dp-brane decay was carried out in [6-24] and led to many new insights.”
• Rolling tachyons from Liouville theory (2003, unknown): “[8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]), in particular for 2D string theory where quantum corrections to tree level results can be incorporated due to the duality with matrix models [14, 15, 16, 17].”
• Closed strings from decaying D-branes (2003, methodology): “The boundary state for an unstable D-brane in superstring theory is rather similar to the bosonic one and was discussed in [4,10].”
• Tachyon effective actins in open string theory (2003, methodology): “4), and compare the resulting function of x to that obtained by evaluating Z ′(x0) [21]”
• Liouville Field Theory — A decade after the revolution (2004, methodology): “For definiteness we take the X0 boundary tachyon profile as that of the half S-brane [211], [212], i.”
• A matrix model dual of type 0B string theory in two dimensions (2003, unknown): “1E-mail: takayana@wigner.harvard.edu 2E-mail: nick@legendre.harvard.edu”
• Timelike boundary Liouville theory (2003, background): “Certain bulk one-point functions were recently computed in [2].”