Brane-Antibrane Action from Boundary String Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-02-03 v3
Abstract
In this paper we give the boundary string field theory description of brane-antibrane systems. From the world-sheet action of brane-antibrane systems we obtain the tachyon potential and discuss the tachyon condensation exactly. We also find the world-volume action including the gauge fields. Moreover we determine RR-couplings exactly for non-BPS branes and brane-antibranes. These couplings are written by superconnections and correspond to K^1(M) and K^0(M) for the non-BPS branes and brane-antibranes, respectively. We also show that Myers terms appear if we include the transverse scalars in the boundary sigma model action.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0012210,
title = {Brane-Antibrane Action from Boundary String Field Theory},
author = {Tadashi Takayanagi and Seiji Terashima and Tadaoki Uesugi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0012210},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
38 pages, LaTeX, no figures. minor corrections and clarification. references added