Published August 9, 2004 | Version v1
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Myers effect and tachyon condensation

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D0-branes are unstable in the presence of an R-R field strength background. A fuzzy two-sphere is classically stable under such a background, this phenomenon being called the Myers effect. We analyze this effect from the viewpoint of tachyon condensation. It is explicitly shown that a fuzzy two-sphere is realized by the condensation of tachyons which appear from strings connecting different D0-branes. The formation of a fuzzy CP2 is also investigated by considering an SU(3) invariant R-R field strength background. We find that the dynamics of the D-branes depends on the properties of the associated algebra

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DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.05.030;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0309082v4;
PII
S0550321304003694;

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Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
692
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 394-416
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.