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D-branes as unstable lumps in bosonic open string field theory. (English) Zbl 0959.81051

Summary: We construct Dp-branes in bosonic string theory as unstable lumps in a truncated string field theory of open strings on a D25-brane. We find that the lowest level truncation gives good quantitative agreement with the predicted D-brane tension and low-lying spectrum of the D-brane for sufficiently large p and study the effect of the next level corrections for \(p=24\). We show that a U(1) gauge field zero mode on the D-brane arises through a mechanism reminiscent of the Randall-Sundrum mechanism for gravity.

MSC:

81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory