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Paper   IPM / P / 6746
School of Physics
  Title:   Tachyon Couplings on Non-BPS D-Branes and Dirac-Born-Infeld Action
  Author(s):  M.R. Garousi
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Nucl. Phys. B
  No.:  40
  Vol.:  584
  Year:  2000
  Pages:   284-299
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
By explicit evaluation of certain disk S-matrix elements in the presence of background B-flux, we find coupling of two open string tachyons to gauge field, graviton, dilaton or Kalb-Ramond antisymmetric tensor on the world-volume of a single non-BPS Dp-brane. We then propose an extension of the abelian Dirac-Born-Infeld action which naturally reproduces these couplings in field theory. This action includes non-linearly the dynamics of the tachyon field much like the other bosonic modes of the non-BPS Dp-brane. On the general grounds of gauge and T-duality transformations and the symmetrized trace prescription, we then extend the abelian action to non-abelian cases.

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