Nicolas Moeller and Martin Schnabl JHEP01(2004)011 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/011
Nicolas Moeller1 and Martin Schnabl1
Show affiliationsWe study a simple model of p-adic closed and open strings. It sheds some light on the dynamics of tachyon condensation for both types of strings. We calculate the effect of static and decaying D-brane configurations on the closed string background. For closed string tachyons we find lumps analogous to D-branes. By studying their fluctuation spectrum and the D-branes they admit, we argue that closed string lumps should be interpreted as spacetimes of lower dimensionality described by some noncritical p-adic string theory.
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14.80.-j Other particles (including hypothetical)
Issue 01 (January 2004)
Received 15 May 2003, accepted for publication 8 January 2004
Published 23 January 2004
Nicolas Moeller and Martin Schnabl JHEP01(2004)011
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