D-branes as coherent states in the open string channel

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that bosonic D-brane states can be represented as coherent states in open string theory using Thermo-Field Dynamics, providing new insights into open/closed duality and string field theory structures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel representation of D-branes as coherent open string states and develops an alternative to TFD that does not assume thermal equilibrium.

Findings

D-brane states can be constructed as coherent states in open string representation.

A new method to obtain thermal states without assuming equilibrium.

Implications for open/closed duality and string field theory structures.

Abstract

We show that bosonic D-brane states may be represented as coherent states in an open string representation. By using the Thermo-Field Dynamics (TFD) formalism, we may construct a condensed state of open string modes which encodes the information on the D-brane configuration. We also introduce a construction alternative to TFD, which does not requires to assume thermal equilibrium. It is shown that the dynamics of the system combined with geometric properties of the duplication rules of TFD is sufficient to obtain the thermal states and their analytic continuations in a geometric fashion. We use this approach to show that bosonic D-brane state in the open string sector may also be built as boundary states in a special sense. Some implications of this study on the interpretation of the open/closed duality and on the kinemathic/algebraic structure of an open string field theory are also commented.