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World-sheet duality for D-branes with travellingwaves

Year: 2003

Type: preprint

Abstract: We study D-branes with plane waves of arbitrary profiles as examples oftime-dependent backgrounds in string theory. We show how to reproducethe quantum mechanical (one-to-one) open-string S-matrix starting from theclosed-string boundary state for the D-branes, thereby establishingthe channel duality of this calculation. The required Wick rotation to aLorentzian worldsheet singles out as 'prefered' time coordinatethe open-string light-cone time.

Source: HAL

Authors: Bachas, Constantin, P., Gaberdiel, Matthias, R.

Institutions: École Normale Supérieure - PSL, ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics, King's College London

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3098860383

Cites: 72

Cited by: 25

Related to: 10