Rolling near the tachyon vacuum

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DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)104zbMATH Open1436.83083arXiv1902.11103OpenAlexW3104139439MaRDI QIDQ780770FDOQ780770


Authors: Theodore Erler, Toru Masuda, M. Schnabl Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: In a linear dilaton background, it has been argued that an unstable D-brane can decay to the tachyon vacuum without leaving behind a remnant of tachyon matter. Here we address the question of how the D-brane can decay to the tachyon vacuum when the tachyon vacuum does not support physical fluctuations. Using the formalism of open string field theory, we find that the tachyon vacuum {it can} support fluctuations provided they are "hidden" as nonperturbative effects behind a pure gauge asymptotic series.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11103




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