Tachyon condensation in cubic superstring field theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v3
Abstract
It has been conjectured that at the stationary point of the tachyon potential for the non-BPS D-brane or brane-anti-D-brane pair, the negative energy density cancels the brane tension. We study this conjecture using a cubic superstring field theory with insertion of a double-step inverse picture changing operator. We compute the tachyon potential at levels (1/2,1) and (2,6). In the first case we obtain that the value of the potential at the minimum is 97.5% of the non BPS D-brane tension. Using a special gauge in the second case we get 105.8% of the tension.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011117,
title = {Tachyon condensation in cubic superstring field theory},
author = {I. Ya. Aref'eva and D. M. Belov and A. S. Koshelev and P. B. Medvedev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011117},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
19 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures. Eqs. (3.2), (3.3) and (4.6) are corrected, and new gauge fixing condition is used