Effective Tachyon Dynamics in Superstring Theory

Details Effective Tachyon Dynamics in Superstring Theory Effective Tachyon Dynamics in Superstring Theory

2000-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0009246v1

JHEP 0103:038,2001

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

10 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2001/03/038

A recently proposed \ell=\infty field theory model of tachyon dynamics for unstable bosonic D-branes has been shown to arise as the two-derivative truncation of (boundary)-string field theory. Using an \ell\to \infty limit appropriate to stable kinks we obtain a model for the tachyon dynamics on unstable D-branes or D-brane anti-D-brane pairs of superstring theory. The tachyon potential is a positive definite even function of the tachyon, and at the stable global minima there is no on-shell dynamics. The kink solution mimics nicely the properties of stable D-branes: the spectrum of the kink consists of infinite levels starting at zero mass, with spacing double the value of the tachyon mass-squared. It is natural to expect that this model will arise in (boundary) superstring field theory.

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