N-point functions in rolling tachyon background
Abstract
We study n-point boundary correlation functions in Timelike Boundary Liouville theory, relevant for open string multiproduction by a decaying unstable D-brane. We give an exact result for the one-point function of the tachyon vertex operator and show that it is consistent with a previously proposed relation to a conserved charge in string theory. We also discuss when the one-point amplitude vanishes. Using a straightforward perturbative expansion, we find an explicit expression for a tachyon n-point amplitude for all n, however the result is still a toy model. The calculation uses a new asymptotic approximation for Toeplitz determinants, derived by relating the system to a Dyson gas at finite temperature.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.1491,
title = {N-point functions in rolling tachyon background},
author = {Niko Jokela and Matti Jarvinen and Esko Keski-Vakkuri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1491},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
30 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor corrections, comments and reference added. v3: revised version, added spatial momentum dependence and references, to appear in PRD