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Some Exact Results on Tachyon Condensation in String Field Theory

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arxiv hep-th/0009148 v1 pith:DEXVBAFI submitted 2000-09-19 hep-th

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keywords stringtachyoncondensationfieldcoordinatesd-branesfieldssystem
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The study of open string tachyon condensation in string field theory can be drastically simplified by making an appropriate choice of coordinates on the space of string fields. We show that a very natural coordinate system is suggested by the connection between the worldsheet renormalization group and spacetime physics. In this system only one field, the tachyon, condenses while all other fields have vanishing expectation values. These coordinates are also well-suited to the study of D-branes as solitons. We use them to show that the tension of the D25-brane is cancelled by tachyon condensation and compute exactly the profiles and tensions of lower dimensional D-branes.

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