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Tachyon condensation in unbalanced D-anti D system

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

The tachyon condensation is studied in asymmetric D-anti D systems. Taking a system of two pairs of D5-anti D5 in type IIB superstring theory in the background of large N D5-branes, we show that one BPS D1-brane comes out after the condensation. It is also seen that the BPS D1-brane feels no force from the background D5-branes. We also show that the inclusion of the fluctuation fields gives an expected Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action of the resultant D1-brane. On the other hand, in the case of one pair of D5-anti D5 in the same background, we show that the resultant BPS D3-brane experiences attractive force from the background D5-branes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0601050,
  title  = {Tachyon condensation in unbalanced D-anti D system},
  author = {Akira Ishida and Shozo Uehara and Tomoki Yada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0601050},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

18 pages, minor corrections, to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys