Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-07-18
Nucl.Phys.B482:153-172,1996
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
harvmac, 23 pages; minor typos corrected and some clarifications about the Born-Infeld action added
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00495-6
We investigate some aspects of the spectrum of D-branes and their interactions with closed strings. As argued earlier, a collection of many D-strings behaves, at large dilaton values, as a single multiply wound string. We use this result and T-duality transformations to show that a similar phenomenon occurs for effective strings produced by wrapping p-branes on a small (p-1)-dimensional torus, for suitable coupling. To understand the decay of an excited D-string at large dilaton values, we study the decay of an elementary string at small dilaton values. A long string, multiply wound on a circle, with a small excitation energy is found to predominantly decay into another string with the same winding number and an unwound closed string (rather than two wound strings). This decay amplitude agrees, under duality, with the decay amplitude computed using the Born-Infeld action for the D-string. We compute the absorption cross section for the D-brane model studied by Callan and Maldacena. The absorption cross section for the dilaton equals that for the scalars obtained by reduction of the graviton, and both agree with the cross section expected from a classical hole with the same charges.
Das Sumit R.
Mathur Samir D.
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