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Tachyon condensation for intersecting branes at small and large angles

✍ Scribed by F. Epple; D. Lüst


Book ID
105357352
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
211 KB
Volume
52
Category
Article
ISSN
0015-8208

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

We review the worldsheet analysis for intersecting branes with focus on small and large angles. For small angles, we review the Yang‐Mills fluctuation analysis in [1] and find an additional family of massless modes. They are the components of a Goldstone scalar corresponding to the spontaneously broken U(2)‐gauge symmetry. For branes at large angles, we derive an effective tachyon field theory from BSFT results. We show how the gauge symmetry of this system implies a mass spectrum which is consistent with the worldsheet analysis.