S-brane Actions

Preprint

15 April 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0211090

Abstract

We derive effective actions for Spacelike branes (S-branes) and find a solution describing the formation of fundamental strings in the rolling tachyon background. The S-brane action is a Dirac-Born-Infeld action for Euclidean worldvolumes defined in the context of time-dependent tachyon condensation of non-BPS branes. It includes gauge fields and in particular a scalar field associated with translation along the time direction. We show that the BIon spike solutions constructed in this system correspond to the production of a confined electric flux tube (a fundamental string) at late time of the rolling tachyon.

Keywords

FUNDAMENTAL STRING
ACTIONS WE DERIVE
DERIVE EFFECTIVE
SPACELIKE BRANES
ROLLING TACHYON
ELECTRIC FLUX
BRANE ACTION
TACHYON

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 90 (14), 141601.

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