A tachyon lump in closed string field theory

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/056zbMATH Open1245.81207arXiv0804.0697OpenAlexW2121325172MaRDI QIDQ445603FDOQ445603

Nicolas Moeller

Publication date: 26 August 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We find a codimension one lump solution of closed bosonic string field theory. We consider vertices up to quartic order and include in the string field the tachyon, the ghost dilaton, and a metric fluctuation. While the tachyon profile clearly is that of a lump, we observe that the ghost dilaton is roughly constant in the direction transverse to the lump, equal to the value it takes in the nonperturbative tachyon vacuum. We explain, with a simple model, why this should be expected.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0697

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zbMATH Keywords

bosonic string field theoryone lump solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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