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Noncommutative Tachyon Kinks as D$(p-1)$-branes from Unstable D$p$-brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v2

Abstract

We study noncommutative (NC) field theory of a real NC tachyon and NC U(1) gauge field, describing the dynamics of an unstable Dpp-brane. For every given set of diagonal component of open string metric G0G_{0}, NC parameter θ0\theta_{0}, and interpolating electric field E^{\hat E}, we find all possible static NC kinks as exact solutions, in spite of complicated NC terms, which are classified by an array of NC kink-antikink and topological NC kinks. By computing their tensions and charges, those configurations are identified as an array of D0Dˉ{\bar {\rm D}}0 and single stable D0 from the unstable D1, respectively. When the interpolating electric field has critical value as G02=E^2G_{0}^{2}={\hat E}^{2}, the obtained topological kink becomes a BPS object with nonzero thickness and is identified as BPS D0 in the fluid of fundamental strings. Particularly in the scaling limit of infinite θ0\theta_{0} and vanishing G0G_{0} and E^{\hat E}, while keeping G0θ0=E^θ0=1G_{0}\theta_{0}={\hat E}\theta_{0}=1, finiteness of the tension of NC kink corresponds to tensionless kink in ordinary effective field theory. An extension to stable D(p1)(p-1) from unstable Dpp is straightforward for pure electric cases with parallel NC parameter and interpolating two-form field.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0407229,
  title  = {Noncommutative Tachyon Kinks as D$(p-1)$-branes from Unstable D$p$-brane},
  author = {Rabin Banerjee and Yoonbai Kim and O-Kab Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0407229},
  year   = {2010}
}

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29 pages, references added