D-brane tension as central charge

Vinícius Bernardes; Theodore Erler; Atakan Hilmi Fırat

D-brane tension as central charge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-06-29 v1

Authors: Vinícius Bernardes , Theodore Erler , Atakan Hilmi Fırat

Abstract

Using recently developed Hamiltonian methods, we derive the mass of a D0-brane in open bosonic string field theory as the central charge of the spontaneously broken Poincar\'e algebra in 26 dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2606.30631,
  title  = {D-brane tension as central charge},
  author = {Vinícius Bernardes and Theodore Erler and Atakan Hilmi Fırat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.30631},
  year   = {2026}
}

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