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arxiv: hep-th/0011117 · v3 · submitted 2000-11-14 · ✦ hep-th

Tachyon condensation in cubic superstring field theory

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keywords potentialtachyontensioncasecubicd-branefieldsuperstring
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It has been conjectured that at the stationary point of the tachyon potential for the non-BPS D-brane or brane-anti-D-brane pair, the negative energy density cancels the brane tension. We study this conjecture using a cubic superstring field theory with insertion of a double-step inverse picture changing operator. We compute the tachyon potential at levels (1/2,1) and (2,6). In the first case we obtain that the value of the potential at the minimum is 97.5% of the non BPS D-brane tension. Using a special gauge in the second case we get 105.8% of the tension.

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