A Thermodynamic Interpretation of Time for Superstring Rolling Tachyons

Abstract

Rolling tachyon backgrounds, arising from open strings on unstable branes in bosonic string theory, can be related to a simple statistical mechanical model - Coulomb gas of point charges in two dimensions confined to a circle, the Dyson gas. In this letter we describe a statistical system that is dual to non-BPS branes in superstring theory. We argue that even though the concept of time is absent in the statistical dual sitting at equilibrium, the notion of time can emerge at the large number of particles $N\to \infty$ limit.

6 pages, 3 figures, v2: reference added, v3: minor clarification, version to appear in journal

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