2000/05/22 by Tasneem Zehra Husain, Maxim Zabzine, Husain, Tasneem Zehra +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0005202
13 pages. Talk presented at the Nordic Network On String Theory held at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen in May 2000
arxiv created 2001/06/14 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We study a bosonic open string coupled to a tachyonic background field T[X] and find that the tachyon field can effectively be replaced by a configuration of D-branes placed at either the zeros or the critical points of T[X], depending on our choice of boundary conditions. This dual picture of the open string tachyon is explored in detail for the explicit case when the tachyonic field is quadratic.