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Tachyon Condensation on Noncommutative Torus

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We discuss noncommutative solitons on a noncommutative torus and their application to tachyon condensation. In the large B limit, they can be exactly described by the Powers-Rieffel projection operators known in the mathematical literature. The resulting soliton spectrum is consistent with T-duality and is surprisingly interesting. It is shown that an instability arises for any D-branes, leading to the decay into many smaller D-branes. This phenomenon is the consequence of the fact that K-homology for type II von Neumann factor is labeled by R.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0010101,
  title  = {Tachyon Condensation on Noncommutative Torus},
  author = {I. Bars and H. Kajiura and Y. Matsuo and T. Takayanagi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0010101},
  year   = {2009}
}

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