Tachyon Dynamics and the Effective Action Approximation

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2002-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208217v2

Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 026005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.026005

Recently effective actions have been extensively used to describe tachyon condensation in string theory. While the various effective actions which have appeared in the literature have very similar properties for static configurations, they differ for time-dependent tachyons. In this paper we discuss general properties of non-linear effective Lagrangians which are first order in derivatives. In particular we show that some observed properties, such as asymptotically vanishing pressure, are rather generic features, although the quantative features differ. On the other hand we argue that certain features of marginal tachyon profiles are beyond the reach of any first order Lagrangian description. We also point out that an effective action, proposed earlier, captures the dynamics of tachyons well.

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