Inter-Brane Potential and the Decay of a non-BPS-D-brane to Closed Strings

Saswat Sarangi, S. -H. Henry Tye

We calculate the potential for $Dp-\Dbar p$ pair and show that the coincident $Dp-\Dbar p$ system has $(11-p)$ tachyonic modes, with $(9-p)$ of them due to radiative corrections. W…