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Open String Fields as Matrices

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-18 v3

Abstract

We show that the action expanded around Erler-Maccaferri's N D-brane solution describes the N+1 D-brane system where one D-brane disappears due to tachyon condensation. String fields on multi-branes can be regarded as block matrices of a string field on a single D-brane in the same way as matrix theories.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4855,
  title  = {Open String Fields as Matrices},
  author = {Isao Kishimoto and Toru Masuda and Tomohiko Takahashi and Shoko Takemoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4855},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages; v2: adding one paragraph about overlaps and minor corrections; v3: final version

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