D-branes as Tachyon Lumps in String Field Theory

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2000-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0005036v1

JHEP 0008:039,2000

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTeX file, epsf, 8 figures, 40 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/039

It has been conjectured that the tachyonic lump solution of the open bosonic string field theory describing a D-brane represents a D-brane of one lower dimension. We place the lump on a circle of finite radius and develop a variant of the level expansion scheme that allows systematic account of all higher derivative terms in the string field theory action, and gives a calculational scheme that can be carried to arbitrary accuracy. Using this approach we obtain lump masses that agree with expected D-brane masses to an accuracy of about 1%. We find convincing evidence that in string field theory the lump representing a D-brane is an extended object with a definite profile. A gaussian fit to the lump gives a 6-sigma size of 9.3 \sqrt{\alpha'}. The level truncation scheme developed here naturally gives rise to an infrared and ultraviolet cut-off, and may be useful in the study of quantum string field theory.

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