Brane nucleation as decay of the tachyon false vacuum
Journal Article
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· Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Dip. di Fisica e Sez. INFN, Universita di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Rome (Italy)
It is well known that spherical D-branes are nucleated in the presence of an external RR electric field. Using the description of D-branes as solitons of the tachyon field on non-BPS D-branes, we show that the brane nucleation process can be seen as the decay of the tachyon false vacuum. This process can describe the decay of flux-branes in string theory or the decay of quintessence potentials arising in flux compactifications.
- OSTI ID:
- 20711384
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 72; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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