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Numerical Solutions of Open String Field Theory in Marginally Deformed Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-05-07 v2

Abstract

We investigate numerical solutions of bosonic open string field theory in some marginally deformed backgrounds, which are obtained by expanding the action around an identity-based marginal solution with one parameter. We construct numerical solutions in the Siegel gauge and the Landau gauge corresponding to the tachyon vacuum. Their vacuum energy approximately cancels the D-brane tension for larger intervals of the parameter with increasing truncation level. The result is consistent with the previous expectation that the identity-based marginal solution has vanishing energy regardless of the values of the parameter. We also study the marginal branch (M-branch) and the vacuum branch (V-branch) and evaluate not only the vacuum energy but also the gauge invariant overlaps with the graviton and the closed tachyon. We observe that there is a finite bound for the value of the massless field of numerical solutions even in the marginally deformed background.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6532,
  title  = {Numerical Solutions of Open String Field Theory in Marginally Deformed Backgrounds},
  author = {Isao Kishimoto and Tomohiko Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6532},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

23 pages, 32 figures; v2: minor corrections