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Gravitational Dual of Tachyon Condensation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-02 v2

Abstract

We study a system of N D3-branes in which open string tachyons survive in the low energy alpha' -> 0 limit. We compute the height of the tachyon potential both in the weak and strong couplings by using N=4 super Yang-Mills and the dual AdS_5 descriptions respectively. We find an exact agreement between the two descriptions in the large N limit. This provides an example of gravitational duals of open string tachyon condensation.

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@article{arxiv.0906.0401,
  title  = {Gravitational Dual of Tachyon Condensation},
  author = {Gary W. Gibbons and Koji Hashimoto and Shinji Hirano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0401},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, v2: references and footnotes added