World-sheet duality for D-branes with travelling waves

2003/10/21 by Constantin P. Bachas, Constantin P Bachas, Matthias R. Gaberdiel +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/03/015

published as JHEP 0403 (2004) 015 · 17 pages, Latex file, uses JHEP3.cls, two figures. Added references and corrected two typos

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Abstract

We study D-branes with plane waves of arbitrary profiles as examples of time-dependent backgrounds in string theory. We show how to reproduce the quantum mechanical (one-to-one) open-string S-matrix starting from the closed-string boundary state for the D-branes, thereby establishing the channel duality of this calculation. The required Wick rotation to a Lorentzian worldsheet singles out as 'prefered' time coordinate the open-string light-cone time.

Citations

• Gravitational radiation from traveling waves on D strings
• D-branes in a plane wave from covariant open strings
• Strings as solitons & black holes as strings
• Comment on the background independent open string theory

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