Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-12-17
JHEP 0302 (2003) 011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
63 pages, LaTeX, no figures, v2: references added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/011
We examine the fluctuations around a Dp-brane solution in an unstable D-brane system using boundary states and also boundary string field theory. We show that the fluctuations correctly reproduce the fields on the Dp-brane. Plugging these into the action of the unstable D-brane system, we recover not only the tension and RR charge, but also full effective action of the Dp-brane exactly. Our method works for general unstable D-brane systems and provides a simple proof of D-brane descent/ascent relations under the tachyon condensation. In the lowest dimensional unstable D-brane system, called K-matrix theory, D-branes are described in terms of operator algebra. We show the equivalence of the geometric and algebraic descriptions of a D-brane world-volume manifold using the equivalence between path integral and operator formulation of the boundary quantum mechanics. As a corollary, the Atiyah-Singer index theorem is naturally obtained by looking at the coupling to RR-fields. We also generalize the argument to type I string theory.
Asakawa Tsuguhiko
Sugimoto Shigeki
Terashima Seiji
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