The Tachyon Potential in the Sliver Frame
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چکیده
We evaluate the tachyon potential in the Schnabl gauge through off-shell computations in the sliver frame. As an application of the results of our computations, we provide a strong evidence that Schnabl’s analytic solution for tachyon condensation in open string field theory represents a saddle point configuration of the full tachyon potential. Additionally we verify that Schnabl’s analytic solution lies on the minimum of the effective tachyon potential. ∗[email protected]
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