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D-Branes, Tachyons, and String Field Theory
Washington Taylor, Barton Zwiebach
In these notes we provide a pedagogical introduction to the subject of tachyon condensation in Witten's cubic bosonic open string field theory. We use both the low-energy Yang-Mill…
Strings between branes
Koji Hashimoto, Washington Taylor
D-brane configurations containing fundamental strings are constructed as classical solutions of Yang-Mills theory. The fundamental strings in these systems stretch between D-branes…
Abelian and nonabelian vector field effective actions from string field theory
Erasmo Coletti, Ilya Sigalov, Washington Taylor
The leading terms in the tree-level effective action for the massless fields of the bosonic open string are calculated by integrating out all massive fields in Witten's cubic strin…
Tadpoles and Closed String Backgrounds in Open String Field Theory
Ian Ellwood, Jessie Shelton, Washington Taylor
We investigate the quantum structure of Witten's cubic open bosonic string field theory by computing the one-loop contribution to the open string tadpole using both oscillator and…
Lectures on D-branes, tachyon condensation, and string field theory
Washington Taylor
These lectures provide an introduction to the subject of tachyon condensation in the open bosonic string. The problem of tachyon condensation is first described in the context of t…