Tachyon Condensation and the Spectrum of Strings on D-Branes

2001/02/28 by Takao Suyama · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Bosonic string theory #Boundary (topology) #Brane cosmology #Combinatorics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Limiting #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Partition (number theory) #Partition function (quantum field theory) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Relationship between string theory and quantum field theory #Spectrum (functional analysis) #String (physics) #String field theory #String theory #Tachyon #Tachyon condensation #Tachyonic field #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1143/ptp.106.1017

published as Prog.Theor.Phys. 106 (2001) 1017-1025 · 11 pages, references added

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Abstract

We investigate the spectrum of open strings on D-branes after tachyon condensation in bosonic string theory. We calculate the 1-loop partition function of the string and show that its limiting forms coincide with partition functions of open strings with different boundary conditions.

Citations

• Remarks on Tachyon Condensation in Superstring Field Theory
• Background Independent Open String Field Theory with Constant B field On the Annulus
• Open strings in background gauge fields
• Some exact results on tachyon condensation in string field theory
• Relevant boundary perturbations of CFT: A case study

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