• DOI:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/048
Corpus ID: 12023565

Rolling Tachyon

@inproceedings{Sen2002RollingT,
  title={Rolling Tachyon},
  author={A. Sen},
  year={2002}
}

A. Sen

Published 2002

Physics

We discuss construction of classical time dependent solutions in open string (field) theory, describing the motion of the tachyon on unstable D-branes. Despite the fact that the string field theory action contains infinite number of time derivatives, and hence it is not a priori clear how to set up the initial value problem, the theory contains a family of time dependent solutions characterized by the initial position and velocity of the tachyon field. We write down the world-sheet action of… CONTINUE READING

View PDF on arXiv

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed