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Noncommutativity and Tachyon Condensation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v4

Abstract

We study the fuzzy or noncommutative Dp-branes in terms of infinitely many unstable D0-branes, from which we can construct any Dp-branes. We show that the tachyon condensation of the unstable D0-branes induces the noncommutativity. In the infinite tachyon condensation limit, most of the unstable D0-branes disappear and remaining D0-branes are actually the BPS D0-branes with the correct noncommutative coordinates. For the fuzzy S^2 case, we explicitly show only the D0-branes corresponding to the lowest Landau level survive in the limit. We also show that a boundary state for a Dp-brane satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition on a curved submanifold embedded in the flat space is not localized on the submanifold. This implies that the Dp-brane on it is ambiguous at the string scale and solves the problem for a spherical D2-brane with a unit flux on the world volume which should be equivalent to one D0-brane. We also discuss the diffeomorphism in the D0-brane picture.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0505184,
  title  = {Noncommutativity and Tachyon Condensation},
  author = {Seiji Terashima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0505184},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

30 pages, references added, minor corrections and clarifications, version to appear in JHEP

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