Open-Closed String Duality at Tree Level

2003/06/14 by Ashoke Sen · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.181601

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.91:181601,2003 · LaTeX file, 10 pages

arxiv created 2003/06/14 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We study the decay of unstable D-branes in string theory in the presence of an electric field, and show that the classical open string theory results for various properties of the final state agree with the properties of closed string states into which the system is expected to decay. This suggests a duality between tree level open string theory on unstable D-branes and closed strings at high density.

Citations

• Open and closed strings from unstable D-branes

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