Published August 15, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Note on Dirac-Born-Infeld dynamics of the D-brane near NS5-branes

  • 1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080 (China) and Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100080 (CN)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)

Description

In this note, we investigate the homogeneous radial dynamics of (Dp, NS5) systems without and with one compactified transverse direction, in the framework of Dirac-Born-Infeld effective action. During the homogeneous evolution, the electric field on the D-brane is always conserved and the radial motion could be reduced to a one-dimension dynamical system with an effective potential. When the Dp-brane energy is not high, the brane moves in a restricted region, with the orbits depending on the conserved energy, angular momentum through the form of the effective potential. When the Dp-brane energy is high enough, it can escape to infinity. It turns out that the conserved angular momentum plays an interesting role in the dynamics. Moreover, we discuss the gauge dynamics around the tachyon vacuum and find that the dynamics is very reminiscent of the string fluid in the rolling tachyon case

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 046005-046005.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37025763
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BORN-INFELD THEORY; COMPACTIFICATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLUIDS; MEMBRANES; POTENTIALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS

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