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Time Evolution in Superstring Field Theory on non-BPS brane.I. Rolling Tachyon and Energy-Momentum Conservation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We derive equations of motion for the tachyon field living on an unstable non-BPS D-brane in the level truncated open cubic superstring field theory in the first non-trivial approximation. We construct a special time dependent solution to this equation which describes the rolling tachyon. It starts from the perturbative vacuum and approaches one of stable vacua in infinite time. We investigate conserved energy functional and show that its different parts dominate in different stages of the evolution. We show that the pressure for this solution has its minimum at zero time and goes to minus energy at infinite time.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301137,
  title  = {Time Evolution in Superstring Field Theory on non-BPS brane.I. Rolling Tachyon and Energy-Momentum Conservation},
  author = {I. Ya. Aref'eva and L. V. Joukovskaya and A. S. Koshelev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301137},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 figures; minor corrections