D-branes and string field theory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2006.
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| author | Sigalov, Ilya |
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| description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2006. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/395602019-04-12T21:12:10Z D-branes and string field theory Sigalov, Ilya Washington Taylor. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Physics. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-127). In this thesis we study the D-brane physics in the context of Witten's cubic string field theory. We compute first few terms the low energy effective action for the non-abelian gauge field A, from Witten's action. We show that after the appropriate field redefinition which relates the string field theory variables to the worldsheet variables one obtains the correct Born-Infeld terms. We then compute the rolling tachyon solution in the context of string field theory. We show that after the appropriate field redefinition we obtain the rolling tachyon solution of Sen. by Ilya Sigalov. Ph.D. 2007-11-16T14:24:27Z 2007-11-16T14:24:27Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39560 174146579 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 127 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Physics. Sigalov, Ilya D-branes and string field theory |
| title | D-branes and string field theory |
| title_full | D-branes and string field theory |
| title_fullStr | D-branes and string field theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | D-branes and string field theory |
| title_short | D-branes and string field theory |
| title_sort | d branes and string field theory |
| topic | Physics. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39560 |
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