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NCOS and D-branes in Time-dependent Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We study noncommutative open string (NCOS) theories realized in string theory with time-dependent backgrounds. Starting from a noncommutative Yang-Mills theory (NCYM) with a constant space-space noncommutativity but in a time-dependent background and making an S-dual transformation, we show that the resulting theory is an NCOS also in a time-dependent background but now with a time-dependent time-space noncommutativity and a time-dependent string scale. The corresponding dual gravity description is also given. A general SL(2,Z) transformation on the NCYM results in an NCOS with a time-dependent time-space noncommutativity and a constant space-space noncommutativity, and also in a time-dependent background.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210206,
  title  = {NCOS and D-branes in Time-dependent Backgrounds},
  author = {Rong-Gen Cai and Jian-Xin Lu and Nobuyoshi Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210206},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, references added; v3: minor correction, to appear in PLB

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