Equivalence between Born-Infeld tachyon and effective real scalar field theories for brane structures in warped geometry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.08.064MaRDI QIDQ2345196zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. E. Bernardini, O. Bertolami

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4138

zbMATH Keywords

scalar fieldtopological defectstachyonic fieldbrane structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: An equivalence between Born-Infeld and effective real scalar field theories for brane structures is built in some specific warped space-time scenarios. Once the equations of motion for tachyon fields related to the Born-Infeld action are written as first-order equations, a simple analytical connection with a particular class of real scalar field superpotentials can be found. This equivalence leads to the conclusion that, for a certain class of superpotentials, both systems can support identical thick brane solutions as well as brane structures described through localized energy densities, $T_{00}(y)$, in the $5^{th}$ dimension, $y$. Our results indicate that thick brane solutions realized by the Born-Infeld cosmology can be connected to real scalar field brane scenarios which can be used to effectively map the tachyon condensation mechanism.

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