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Anomalous couplings of non-BPS D-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Non-BPS type II D-branes couple to R-R potentials via an action that, upon tachyon condensation, gives rise to the Wess-Zumino action of BPS D-branes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9908029,
  title  = {Anomalous couplings of non-BPS D-branes},
  author = {Marco Billo' and Ben Craps and Frederik Roose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9908029},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, latex, uses cargese.cls, contribution to proceedings of NATO-ASI and TMR Summer School "Progress in String Theory and M-theory", Cargese, May 24 - June 5 1999 (talk by Frederik Roose)