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Boundary State Description of Tachyon Condensation

Michihiro Naka, Tadashi Takayanagi, Tadaoki Uesugi

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0005114

Abstract

We construct the explicit boundary state description of the vortex-type (codimension two) tachyon condensation in brane-antibrane systems generalizing the known result of the kink-type (Frau et al. hep-th/9903123). In this description we show how the RR-charge of the lower dimensional D-branes emerges. We also investigate the tachyon condensation in T4/Z2 orbifold and find that the twisted sector can be treated almost in the same way as the untwisted sector from the viewpoint of the boundary state. Further we discuss the higher codimension cases.

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