Classical Decay of the Non-SUSY-Preserving Configuration of Two D-Branes

TL;DR

This paper investigates the decay process of non-supersymmetric D-brane configurations via tachyon mediation, analyzing classical decay behavior and stability, with implications for D-brane physics and decay modes.

Contribution

It provides a detailed world-volume gauge theory analysis of D-brane annihilation from non-supersymmetric initial states, including decay modes and stability insights.

Findings

Confirmed instability of D-0 and D-2 brane systems.

Derived decay modes for non-supersymmetric D-brane configurations.

Applied T-duality to relate decay processes across different brane setups.

Abstract

We have studied a problem of the tachyon mediated D-brane - D-brane annihilation from the underlying world-volume gauge field theory point of view. The initial state was chosen in the form of two D-branes crossing at a non-zero angle, which is non-supersymmetric configuration generically. This state was not a groundstate of the theory and the problem at hand was a model, where we had rather precise control over the behavior of the theory.Some applications of this model to the D-brane physics and conclusions about stability of several configurations were made. By taking a T-dual picture of this process on a T^2 torus, we derived known conclusion about the instability of a system consisting of D-0 and D-2 branes, and found its decay modes.