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Tachyon condensation on a noncommutative torus

Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: We discuss noncommutative solitons on a noncommutative torus and their application to tachyon condensation. In the large B limit, they can be exactly described by the Powers-Rieffel projection operators known in the mathematical literature. The resulting soliton spectrum is consistent with T duality and is surprisingly interesting. It is shown that an instability arises for any D-branes, leading to the decay into many smaller D-branes. This phenomenon is the consequence of the fact that the K-homology for a type II von Neumann factor is labeled by $R.$
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2014573362
FWCI: 8.745
Cites: 35
Cited by: 42
Related to: 10