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QUANTUM DESCRIPTION FOR THE DECAY OF NSNS BRANE–ANTIBRANE SYSTEMS

HONGSU KIM

Astronomy Program, SEES, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X04017483Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

The stringy description for the instabilities in the RR charged pairs is now well understood in terms of the open string tachyon condensation. The quantum interpretation presumably via the stringy description for the instabilities in the NSNS-charged and pairs in IIA/IIB theories, however, has not been fully established yet. This would be partly because of the absence (for the case) or our relatively poor understanding (for the case) of their world-volume (gauge theory) dynamics. In the present work, using the well-known quantum description for instabilities in the RR-charged systems and in the M-theory brane–antibrane systems and invoking appropriate string dualities, the stringy nature of the instabilities in the NSNS-charged and systems both at strong and at weak couplings has been uncovered. For the annihilations to string vacua, the quantum, stringy interpretations are simple extensions of Sen's conjecture for those in RR-charged brane–antibrane systems.

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PACS: 11.25.Sq, 04.65.+e, 11.10.Kk

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