Dasgupta, Keshav ; Rajesh, Govindan ; Mukhi, Sunil (2000) Noncommutative tachyons Journal of High Energy Physics, 2000 (6). 022-022. ISSN 1126-6708
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Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/022
Abstract
When unstable Dp-branes in type-II string theory are placed in a B-field, the resulting tachyonic world-volume theory becomes non commutative. We argue that for large noncommutativity parameter, condensation of the tachyon as a non-commutative soliton leads to new decay modes of the Dp-brane into (p-2)-brane configurations, which we interpret as suitably smeared BPS D(p-1)-branes. Some of these configurations are metastable. We discuss various generalizations of this decay process.
| Item Type: | Article | 
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| Source: | Copyright of this article belongs to Institute of Physics Publishing. | 
| Keywords: | Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; D-branes; Non-commutative Geometry | 
| ID Code: | 20908 | 
| Deposited On: | 20 Nov 2010 13:22 | 
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2016 05:10 | 
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