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Myers Effect and Tachyon Condensation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v4

Abstract

D0-branes are unstable in the presence of an R-R field strength background. A fuzzy two-sphere is classically stable under such a background, this phenomenon being called the Myers effect. We analyze this effect from the viewpoint of tachyon condensation. It is explicitly shown that a fuzzy two-sphere is realized by the condensation of tachyons which appear from strings connecting different D0-branes. The formation of a fuzzy CP2CP^{2} is also investigated by considering the SU(3) invariant R-R field strength background. We find that the dynamics of the D-branes depends on the properties of the associated algebra.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0309082,
  title  = {Myers Effect and Tachyon Condensation},
  author = {Yusuke Kimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0309082},
  year   = {2009}
}

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