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On Tachyon kinks from the DBI action

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We consider solitonic solutions of the DBI tachyon effective action for a non-BPS brane in the presence of an electric field. We find that for a constant electric field E~1\tilde E\le 1, regular solitons compactified on a circle admit a singular and decompactified limit corresponding to Sen's proposal provided the tachyon potential satisfies some restrictions. On the other hand for the critical electric field E~=1\tilde E=1, regular and finite energy solitons are constructed without any restriction on the potential.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310079,
  title  = {On Tachyon kinks from the DBI action},
  author = {Ph. Brax and J. Mourad and D. A. Steer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310079},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

proceedings of the second string phenomenology conference, Durham, 30th July to 4th August 2003

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