Published August 2005
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Journal article
Taming the tachyon in cubic string field theory
- 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)
Description
We give evidence based on level-truncation computations that the rolling tachyon in cubic open string field theory (CSFT) has a well-defined but wildly oscillatory time-dependent solution which goes as et for t→-∞. We show that a field redefinition taking the CSFT effective tachyon action to the analogous boundary string field theory (BSFT) action takes the oscillatory CSFT solution to the pure exponential solution et of the BSFT action
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2005/i=08/a=104/jhep082005104.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2005
- Journal Issue
- 08
- Journal Page Range
- p. 104
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36099662
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STRING MODELS; TACHYONS; TIME DEPENDENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARK MODEL