Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-03-29
JHEP 0305 (2003) 055
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
14 pages, LaTeX, 2 eps figures. v2: a reference and some clarifying remarks added; v3: Considerably revised version; halo unaf
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/055
We study aspects of the interaction between a D-brane and an anti-D-brane in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of type IIB superstring theory, which is equipped with a mass parameter mu. An early such study in flat spacetime (mu=0) served to sharpen intuition about D-brane interactions, showing in particular the key role of the ``stringy halo'' that surrounds a D-brane. The halo marks the edge of the region within which tachyon condensation occurs, opening a gateway to new non-trivial vacua of the theory. It seems pertinent to study the fate of the halo for non--zero mu. We focus on the simplest cases of a Lorentzian brane with p=1 and an Euclidean brane with p=-1, the D--instanton. For the Lorentzian brane, we observe that the halo is unaffected by the presence of non--zero mu. This most likely extends to other (Lorentzian) p. For the Euclidean brane, we find that the halo is affected by non-zero mu. As this is related to subtleties in defining the exchange amplitude between Euclidean branes in the open string sector, we expect this to extend to all Euclidean branes in this background.
Johnson Clifford V.
Svendsen Harald G.
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