Tachyon condensation on the brane antibrane system

A. Sen

DOI:10.1088/1126-6708/1998/08/012
Corpus ID: 14588486

Tachyon condensation on the brane antibrane system

@article{Sen1998TachyonCO,
  title={Tachyon condensation on the brane antibrane system},
  author={Ashoke Sen},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={1998},
  volume={1998},
  pages={012-012}
}

A. Sen
Published 26 May 1998
Physics
Journal of High Energy Physics

A coincident D-brane - anti-D-brane pair has a tachyonic mode. We present an argument showing that at the classical minimum of the tachyonic potential the negative energy density associated with the potential exactly cancels the sum of the tension of the brane and the anti-brane, thereby giving a configuration of zero energy density and restoring space-time supersymmetry.

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