Abstract
We report our searches for a single tubular tachyonic solution of regular profile on unstable non BPS D3-branes. We first show that some extended Dirac-Born-Infeld tachyon actions in which new contributions are added to avoid the Derrick's no-go theorem still could not have a single regular tube solution. Next we use the Minahan-Zwiebach tachyon action to find the regular tube solutions with circular or elliptic cross section. With a critical electric field, the energy of the tube comes entirely from the D0 and strings, while the energy associated to the tubular D2-brane tension is vanishing. We also show that fluctuation spectrum around the tube solution does not contain tachyonic mode. The results are consistent with the identification of the tubular configuration as a BPS D2-brane.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1595-1609 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2004 Aug 1 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics