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Tachyon condensation on the brane antibrane system

Journal of High Energy PhysicsPublished 28 August 1998Open access
Ashoke Sen
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Abstract

A coincident D-brane - anti-D-brane pair has a tachyonic mode. We present an argument showing that at the classical minimum of the tachyonic potential the negative energy density associated with the potential exactly cancels the sum of the tension of the brane and the anti-brane, thereby giving a configuration of zero energy density and restoring space-time supersymmetry.

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Physics and Astronomy