“…Also, in trying to study effects of gravitational backreaction on the brane decay process, candidate dual supergravity solutions have also been constructed in Ref. 30 where it was found that their decay time could be infinitely extended through explicit scaling limits; insight into the possibility of a new open closed string duality could arise from a careful study of their near horizon limit. Recently Ref.…”
The tremendous progress achieved through the study of black holes and branes suggests that their time dependent generalizations called Spacelike branes (S-branes) may prove similarly useful. An example of an established approach to S-branes is to include a string boundary interaction and we first summarize evidence for the death of open string degrees of freedom for the homogeneous rolling tachyon on a decaying brane. Then, we review how to extract the flat S-brane worldvolumes describing the homogeneous rolling tachyon and how large deformations correspond to creation of lower dimensional strings and branes. These S-brane worldvolumes are governed by S-brane actions which are on equal footing to D-brane actions, since they are derived by imposing conformality on the string worldsheet, as well as by analyzing fluctuations of time dependent tachyon configurations. As further examples we generalize previous solutions of the S-brane actions so as to describe multiple decaying and nucleating closed fundamental strings. Conceptually Sbrane actions are therefore different from D-brane actions and can provide a description of time dependent strings/branes and possibly their interactions.
“…Also, in trying to study effects of gravitational backreaction on the brane decay process, candidate dual supergravity solutions have also been constructed in Ref. 30 where it was found that their decay time could be infinitely extended through explicit scaling limits; insight into the possibility of a new open closed string duality could arise from a careful study of their near horizon limit. Recently Ref.…”
The tremendous progress achieved through the study of black holes and branes suggests that their time dependent generalizations called Spacelike branes (S-branes) may prove similarly useful. An example of an established approach to S-branes is to include a string boundary interaction and we first summarize evidence for the death of open string degrees of freedom for the homogeneous rolling tachyon on a decaying brane. Then, we review how to extract the flat S-brane worldvolumes describing the homogeneous rolling tachyon and how large deformations correspond to creation of lower dimensional strings and branes. These S-brane worldvolumes are governed by S-brane actions which are on equal footing to D-brane actions, since they are derived by imposing conformality on the string worldsheet, as well as by analyzing fluctuations of time dependent tachyon configurations. As further examples we generalize previous solutions of the S-brane actions so as to describe multiple decaying and nucleating closed fundamental strings. Conceptually Sbrane actions are therefore different from D-brane actions and can provide a description of time dependent strings/branes and possibly their interactions.
“…Other aspects of closed string field produced by unstable D-branes and other time dependent configurations have been discussed in [69,85,315,285,450,406,534,84,75,407,329,76,119,405,501,452,271,393,267,344,516,32,218,345,305].…”
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In this review we describe our current understanding of the properties of open string tachyons on an unstable D-brane or brane-antibrane system in string theory. The various string theoretic methods used for this study include techniques of two dimensional conformal field theory, open string field theory, boundary string field theory, non-commutative solitons etc. We also describe various attempts to understand these results using field theoretic methods. These field theory models include toy models like singular potential models and p-adic string theory, as well as more realistic version of the tachyon effective action based on Dirac-Born-Infeld type action. Finally we study closed string background produced by the 'decaying' unstable D-branes, both in the critical string theory and in the two dimensional string theory, and describe the open string completeness conjecture that emerges out of this study. According to this conjecture the quantum dynamics of an unstable D-brane system is described by an internally consistent quantum open string field theory without any need to couple the system to closed strings. Each such system can be regarded as a part of the 'hologram' describing the full string theory.
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