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Boundary State Description of Tachyon Condensation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We construct the explicit boundary state description of the vortex-type (codimension two) tachyon condensation in brane-antibrane systems generalizing the known result of the kink-type (Frau et al. hep-th/9903123). In this description we show how the RR-charge of the lower dimensional D-branes emerges. We also investigate the tachyon condensation in T^4/Z_2 orbifold and find that the twisted sector can be treated almost in the same way as the untwisted sector from the viewpoint of the boundary state. Further we discuss the higher codimension cases.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005114,
  title  = {Boundary State Description of Tachyon Condensation},
  author = {Michihiro Naka and Tadashi Takayanagi and Tadaoki Uesugi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005114},
  year   = {2009}
}

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36 pages, 3 figures