Brane - anti-brane action from boundary string field theory

Dec, 2000
37 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 03 (2001) 019
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Report number:
  • UT-919

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Abstract:
In this paper we give the boundary string field theory description of brane-antibrane systems. From the world-sheet action of brane-antibrane systems we obtain the tachyon potential and discuss the tachyon condensation exactly. We also find the world-volume action including the gauge fields. Moreover we determine RR-couplings exactly for non-BPS branes and brane-antibranes. These couplings are written by superconnections and correspond to K^1(M) and K^0(M) for the non-BPS branes and brane-antibranes, respectively. We also show that Myers terms appear if we include the transverse scalars in the boundary sigma model action.
  • membrane model: antibrane
  • field theory: string
  • boundary condition
  • path integral
  • soliton
  • field theory: action
  • tachyon: potential
  • tachyon: condensation
  • K-theory
  • bibliography