Rolling Near the Tachyon Vacuum
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-05-20 v1
Abstract
In a linear dilaton background, it has been argued that an unstable D-brane can decay to the tachyon vacuum without leaving behind a remnant of tachyon matter. Here we address the question of how the D-brane can decay to the tachyon vacuum when the tachyon vacuum does not support physical fluctuations. Using the formalism of open string field theory, we find that the tachyon vacuum {\it can} support fluctuations provided they are "hidden" as nonperturbative effects behind a pure gauge asymptotic series.
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@article{arxiv.1902.11103,
title = {Rolling Near the Tachyon Vacuum},
author = {Theodore Erler and Toru Masuda and Martin Schnabl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.11103},
year = {2020}
}
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41 pages, 12 figures