String scattering from decaying branes

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1294-9zbMATH Open1079.81051arXivhep-th/0404039OpenAlexW2018178950MaRDI QIDQ2575356FDOQ2575356

Per Kraus, Asad Naqvi, Vijay Balasubramanian, E. Keski-Vakkuri

Publication date: 9 December 2005

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop the general formalism of string scattering from decaying D-branes in bosonic string theory. In worldsheet perturbation theory, amplitudes can be written as a sum of correlators in a grand canonical ensemble of unitary random matrix models, with time setting the fugacity. An approach employed in the past for computing amplitudes in this theory involves an unjustified analytic continuation from special integer momenta. We give an alternative formulation which is well-defined for general momenta. We study the emission of closed strings from a decaying D-brane with initial conditions perturbed by the addition of an open string vertex operator. Using an integral formula due to Selberg, the relevant amplitude is expressed in closed form in terms of zeta functions. Perturbing the initial state can suppress or enhance the emission of high energy closed strings for extended branes, but enhances it for D0-branes. The closed string two point function is expressed as a sum of Toeplitz determinants of certain hypergeometric functions. A large N limit theorem due to Szego, and its extension due to Borodin and Okounkov, permits us to compute approximate results showing that previous naive analytic continuations amount to the large N approximation of the full result. We also give a free fermion formulation of scattering from decaying D-branes and describe the relation to a grand canonical ensemble for a 2d Coulomb gas.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404039

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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