Brane-Antibrane Action from Boundary String Field Theory

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22 December 2000

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

In this paper we give the boundary string theory description of brane-antibrane systems. From the worldsheet action of brane-antibrane systems we obtain the tachyon potential and discuss the tachyon condensation exactly. We also find the world-volume action including the gauge fields. Moreover we determine RR-couplings exactly for non-BPS branes and brane-antibranes. These couplings are known as superconnections and correspond to K^0(M) and K^1(M) for the non-BPS branes and brane-antibranes, respectively. We also show that Myers terms appear if we include the transverse scalars in the boundary sigma model action.

Keywords

ANTIBRANE SYSTEMS
BRANE ANTIBRANE
BOUNDARY STRING
SIGMA MODEL
BPS BRANES
ANTIBRANES
TACHYON
STRING
ACTION

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Published version: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001 (03), 019.

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