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D-branes in overcritical electric fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

We collect some arguments for treating a D-brane with overcritical electric field as a well-posed initial condition for a D-brane decay. Within the field theoretical toy model of Minahan and Zwiebach we give an estimate for the condensates of the related infinite tower of tachyonic excitations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0508071,
  title  = {D-branes in overcritical electric fields},
  author = {Harald Dorn and Mario Salizzoni and Alessandro Torrielli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0508071},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 2 figures; references and comments added, version to appear in PRD

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