Boundary string field theory as a field theory?mass spectrum and interaction

@article{Hashimoto2004BoundarySF,
  title={Boundary string field theory as a field theory?mass spectrum and interaction},
  author={Koji Hashimoto and Seiji Terashima},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2004},
  volume={2004},
  pages={040-040}
}
We study the BSFT actions by using an analytic continuation in momentum space. We compute various two- and three-point functions for some low-lying excitations including massive states on BPS/non-BPS D-branes. The off-shell two-point functions for the tachyon, the gauge field and the massive fields are found to reproduce the well-known string mass-shell conditions. We compare our action with the tachyon actions previously obtained by the derivative expansion (or the linear tachyon profiles… 
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