On shell S matrix and tachyonic effective actions

Sep, 2002
15 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 647 (2002) 117-130
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Report number:
  • IPM-P-2002-038

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Abstract:
We evaluate various disk level four-point functions involving the massless scalar and tachyon vertex operators in the presence of background B-flux in superstring theory. By studying these amplitudes in specific limits, we find couplings of two scalars with two tachyons, and couplings of four tachyons on the world-volume of non-BPS D-branes of superstring theory. They are fully consistent with the non-commutative tachyonic Dirac-Born-Infeld effective action. They also fix the coefficient of T4T^4 term in the expansion of the tachyon potential around its maximum.
  • string model
  • effective action
  • membrane model: D-brane
  • tachyon
  • operator: vertex
  • scattering amplitude
  • analytic properties