Tachyon condensation in open-closed p-adic string theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
We study a simple model of p-adic closed and open strings. It sheds some light on the dynamics of tachyon condensation for both types of strings. We calculate the effect of static and decaying D-brane configurations on the closed string background. For closed string tachyons we find lumps analogous to D-branes. By studying their fluctuation spectrum and the D-branes they admit, we argue that closed string lumps should be interpreted as spacetimes of lower dimensionality described by some noncritical p-adic string theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0304213,
title = {Tachyon condensation in open-closed p-adic string theory},
author = {Nicolas Moeller and Martin Schnabl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0304213},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
21 pages, 3 figures; v2: discussion of the fluctuations of the double lump substantially improved