World-sheet duality for D-branes with travelling waves
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
We study D-branes with plane waves of arbitrary profiles as examples of time-dependent backgrounds in string theory. We show how to reproduce the quantum mechanical (one-to-one) open-string S-matrix starting from the closed-string boundary state for the D-branes, thereby establishing the channel duality of this calculation. The required Wick rotation to a Lorentzian worldsheet singles out as 'prefered' time coordinate the open-string light-cone time.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310017,
title = {World-sheet duality for D-branes with travelling waves},
author = {Constantin P. Bachas and Matthias R. Gaberdiel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310017},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, Latex file, uses JHEP3.cls, two figures. Added references and corrected two typos