One-loop correction of the tachyon action in boundary superstring field theory
Abstract
We compute one-loop correction to the string field theory action of the tachyon for unstable D-branes in the framework of the boundary superstring field theory. We would expect that the one-loop correction comes from the partition function of the two-dimensional worldsheet theory on the annulus. The annulus correction suggests that the genus expansion is, somehow, governed by the effective string coupling defined in terms of the tachyon λ=gsexp(-T2/4).
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- June 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00596-2
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0104164
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhLB..510..285A
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, latex. A new section has been added to clarify the misinterpretation of the early result. Typos and minor corrections. To appear in Phys. Lett. B