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Closed strings from decaying D-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v3

Abstract

We compute the emission of closed string radiation from homogeneous rolling tachyons. For an unstable decaying Dpp-brane the radiated energy is infinite to leading order for p2p\leq 2 and finite for p>2p>2. The closed string state produced by a decaying brane is closely related to the state produced by D-instantons at a critical Euclidean distance from t=0t=0. In the case of a D0 brane one can cutoff this divergence so that we get a finite energy final state which would be the state that the brane decays into.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0303139,
  title  = {Closed strings from decaying D-branes},
  author = {Neil Lambert and Hong Liu and Juan Maldacena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0303139},
  year   = {2010}
}

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harvmac, 30 pages, 2 figures. v3: Improved discussion for non compact branes