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Bernoulli Numbers and Multi-brane Solutions in Cubic String Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-08-21 v1

Abstract

In a previous paper [arXiv:1901.01681], we presented an analytic construction of multi-brane solutions in cubic open string field theory (CSFT) for any integer brane number. Our (N+1)(N+1)-brane solution is given in the pure-gauge form Ψ=UQBU1\Psi=U Q_\textrm{B}U^{-1} in terms of a unitary string field UU which is specified by [N/2][N/2] independent real parameters αk\alpha_k. We saw that, for various sample values of NN (=2,3,4,5,)(=2, 3, 4, 5,\cdots), αk\alpha_k can be consistently determined by two requirements: The energy density from the action should reproduce that of (N+1)(N+1)-branes, and the EOM of the solution against the solution itself should hold. In this paper, we complete our construction by determining αk\alpha_k satisfying the two requirements for a generic NN. We find that each αk\alpha_k is given in a closed form by using the Bernoulli numbers. We also present some supplementary results on our solution; the energy density of the solutions determined from its gravitational coupling, and the unitary string field UU as an exponential function.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07177,
  title  = {Bernoulli Numbers and Multi-brane Solutions in Cubic String Field Theory},
  author = {Hiroyuki Hata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07177},
  year   = {2019}
}

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21 pages, no figures

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