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Mass generation from tachyon condensation for vector fields on D-branes

Author(s) -

Washington Taylor

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

journal of high energy physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 261

eISSN - 1126-6708

pISSN - 1029-8479

DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/038

Subject(s) - tachyon condensation , physics , tachyon , brane , mathematical physics , brane cosmology , string (physics) , quantum electrodynamics , zero (linguistics) , field (mathematics) , zero mode , mass generation , string field theory , theoretical physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , fermion , linguistics , philosophy , pure mathematics

The level truncation approach to string field theory is used to study thezero-momentum action for vector excitations on a bosonic D-brane which has beenannihilated by tachyon condensation. It is shown that in the true vacuum thetranslation zero modes associated with transverse scalars on the D-brane arelifted by spontaneous generation of mass terms. Similarly, the U(1) gauge fieldon the brane develops a nonzero mass term.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX; v3: reference adde

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