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Tachyon Effective Actions In Open String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v3

Abstract

We argue that the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action coupled to a tachyon, that is known to reproduce some aspects of open string dynamics, can be obtained from open string theory in a certain limit, which generalizes the limit leading to the usual DBI action. This helps clarify which aspects of the full open string theory are captured by this action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0304045,
  title  = {Tachyon Effective Actions In Open String Theory},
  author = {David Kutasov and Vasilis Niarchos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0304045},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

harvmac, 19 pages; v2 two references added; v3 additional comments and a reference