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Yoonbai Kim

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Unstable D-branes and String Cosmology

Cosmological implication of rolling tachyons is reported in the context of effective field theory. With a brief review of rolling tachyons in both flat and curved spacetimes, we study the string cosmological model with both tachyon and dilaton. In the string frame, flat space solutions of both initial-stage and late-time are obtained in closed form. In the Einstein frame, every expanding solution is decelerating. When a Born-Infeld U(1) gauge field is coupled, enhancement of e-folding of scale factor is also discussed by numerical analysis.

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Domain Walls in Noncommutative Field Theories

We study kinks in a wide class of noncommutative (NC) field theories. We find rich structure of the static kinks in DBI type NC tachyon action for an unstable D$p$-brane with general constant open string metric and NC parameter. Among which thick topological BPS NC kink and tensionless half-kink are particularly intriguing. Reproduction of the correct decent relation between D$p$ and D$(p-1)$ lets us interpret the obtained NC kinks as codimension-one D-brane and its composites. If we turn on DBI type NC U(1) gauge field on an unstable D2-brane, only constant field strength is allowed by gauge equation and NC Bianchi identity. Inclusion of the NC U(1) gauge field induces fundamental string charge localized on the codimension-one brane, which turns D$(p-1)$ into D$(p-1)$F1.

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Noncommutative Tachyon Kinks as D$(p-1)$-branes from Unstable D$p$-brane

We study noncommutative (NC) field theory of a real NC tachyon and NC U(1) gauge field, describing the dynamics of an unstable D$p$-brane. For every given set of diagonal component of open string metric $G_{0}$, NC parameter $θ_{0}$, and interpolating electric field ${\hat E}$, we find all possible static NC kinks as exact solutions, in spite of complicated NC terms, which are classified by an array of NC kink-antikink and topological NC kinks. By computing their tensions and charges, those configurations are identified as an array of D0${\bar {\rm D}}$0 and single stable D0 from the unstable D1, respectively. When the interpolating electric field has critical value as $G_{0}^{2}={\hat E}^{2}$, the obtained topological kink becomes a BPS object with nonzero thickness and is identified as BPS D0 in the fluid of fundamental strings. Particularly in the scaling limit of infinite $θ_{0}$ and vanishing $G_{0}$ and ${\hat E}$, while keeping $G_{0}θ_{0}={\hat E}θ_{0}=1$, finiteness of the tension of NC kink corresponds to tensionless kink in ordinary effective field theory. An extension to stable D$(p-1)$ from unstable D$p$ is straightforward for pure electric cases with parallel NC parameter and interpolating two-form field.

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Scalar Hair of Global Defect and Black Brane World

We consider a complex scalar field in (p+3)-dimensional bulk with a negative cosmological constant and study global vortices in two extra-dimensions. We reexamine carefully the coupled scalar and Einstein equations, and show that the boundary value of scalar amplitude at infinity of the extra-dimensions should be smaller than vacuum expectation value. The brane world has a cigar-like geometry with an exponentially decaying warp factor and a flat thick p-brane is embedded. Since a coordinate transformation identifies the obtained brane world as a black p-brane world bounded by a horizon, this strange boundary condition of the scalar amplitude is understood as existence of a short scalar hair.

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Tubular D-branes in Salam-Sezgin Model

We study DBI-type effective theory of an unstable D3-brane in the background manifold R^{1,1} x M_2 where M_2 is an arbitrary two-dimensional manifold. We obtain an exact tubular D2-brane solution of arbitrary cross sectional shape by employing 1/cosh tachyon potential. When M_2=S^2, the solution is embedded in the background geometry R^{1,3} x S^2 of Salam-Sezgin model. This tachyon potential shows a unique property that an array of tachyon soliton solutions has a fixed period which is independent of integration constants of the equations of motion. The thin BPS limit of the configurations leads to supertubes of arbitrary cross sectional shapes.

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Brane World of Warp Geometry: An Introductory Review

Basic idea of Randall-Sundrum brane world model I and II is reviewed with detailed calculation. After introducing the brane world metric with exponential warp factor, metrics of Randall-Sundrum models are constructed. We explain how Randall-Sundrum model I with two branes makes the gauge hierarchy problem much milder, and then derive Newtonian gravity in Randall-Sundrum model II with a single brane by considering small fluctuations.

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Black Brane World from Gravitating Half $σ$-lump

We study O($N+1$) nonlinear $σ$-model in $(p+1+N)$-dimensional curved spacetime with negative cosmological constant, and find a new $σ$-lump solution with half-integer winding and divergent energy. When the spatial structure of $N$ extra-dimensions is determined by this global defect, a black $σp$-brane surrounded by the degenerated horizon is formed and its near-horizon geometry is identified as a warp geometry of cigar type.

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Tachyon Tube and Supertube

We search for tubular solutions in unstable D3-brane. With critical electric field E=1, solutions representing supertubes, which are supersymmetric bound states of fundamental strings, D0-branes, and a cylindrical D2-brane, are found and shown to exhibit BPS-like property. We also point out that boosting such a {\it tachyon tube} solution generates string flux winding around the tube, resulting in helical electric fluxes on the D2-brane. We also discuss issues related to fundamental string, absence of magnetic monopole, and finally more tachyon tubes with noncritical electric field.

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Tachyon Kinks on Unstable Dp-branes

In the context of tachyon effective theory coupled to Born-Infeld electromagnetic fields, we obtain all possible singularity-free static flat configurations of codimension one on unstable Dp-branes. Computed tension and string charge density suggest that the obtained kinks are D(p-1) or D(p-1)F1-branes.

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Tachyon Kinks

We study Born-Infeld type tachyonic effective action of unstable D2-brane with a runaway potential and find rich structure of static regular solitonic solutions. There exists only periodic array of tachyon kink-antikinks in pure tachyonic theory, however, in the presence of electromagnetic fields, solutions include periodic arrays, topological tachyon kinks, half kink, and bounces. Computed tension of each kink or single unit of the periodic array has $T_{1}=\sqrt{2}πT_{2}$ or that with a multiplicative factor depending on electric field. When both electric and magnetic fields are turned on, fundamental string charge density has a confined component in addition to a constant piece. These evidences imply that the obtained codimension-1 objects are likely to be interpreted as D1-brane (and D1F1) or array of D1$\bar{\rm D}1$ (and D1F1-$\bar{\rm D}1$F1) as was the case without the electromagnetic fields. Generalization to unstable D$p$-branes is straightforward.

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Electromagnetic String Fluid in Rolling Tachyon

We study Born-Infeld type effective action for unstable D3-brane system including a tachyon and an Abelian gauge field, and find the rolling tachyon with constant electric and magnetic fields as the most general homogeneous solution. Tachyonic vacua are characterized by magnitudes of the electric and magnetic fields and the angle between them. Analysis of small fluctuations in this background shows that the obtained configuration may be interpreted as a fluid consisting of string-like objects carrying electric and magnetic fields. They are stretched along one direction and the rolling tachyon move in a perpendicular direction to the strings. Direction of the propagating waves coincides with that of strings with velocity equal to electric field.

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Chiral primary cubic interactions from pp-wave supergravity

We explicitly construct cubic interaction light-cone Hamiltonian for the chiral primary system involving the metric fields and the self-dual four-form fields in the IIB pp-wave supergravity. The background fields representing pp-waves exhibit SO(4)*SO(4)*Z_2 invariance. It turns out that the interaction Hamiltonian is precisely the same as that for the dilaton-axion system, except for the fact that the chiral primary system fields have the opposite parity to that of the dilaton-axion fields under the Z_2 transformation that exchanges two SO(4)'s.

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Classical stability of stringy wormholes in flat and AdS spaces

We study small fluctuations of the stringy wormhole solutions of graviton-dilaton-axion system in arbitrary dimensions. We show under O($d$)-symmetric harmonic perturbation that the Euclidean wormhole solutions are unstable in flat space irrespective of dimensions and in anti de Sitter space of $d=3$.

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Cosmology of Rolling Tachyon

We study dynamics of rolling tachyon and Abelian gauge field on unstable D-branes, of which effective action is given by Born-Infeld type nonlocal action. Possible cosmological evolutions are also discussed. In the Einstein frame of string cosmology, every expanding flat universe is proven to be decelerating.

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Rolling Tachyons in String Cosmology

We study the role of rolling tachyons in the cosmological model with dilatonic gravity. In the string frame, flat space solutions of both initial-stage and late-time are obtained in closed form. In the Einstein frame, we show that every expanding solution is decelerating.

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Vacuum Structure and Global Strings with Conical Singularities

Vacuum structure and global cosmic strings are analyzed in the effective theory of self-interacting O(2) scalar fields on (3+1)-manifolds with conical singularities. In the context of one-loop effective action computed by heat-kernel methods with $ζ$-function regularization, we find an inhomogeneous vacuum of minimum energy and suggest some reason why low-energy global strings are likely to be generated at the conical singularities.

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PP-wave/Yang-Mills Correspondence: An Explicit Check

We present an explicit evidence that shows the correspondence between the type IIB supergravity in the pp-wave background and its dual supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at the interaction level. We first construct the cubic term of the light-cone interaction Hamiltonian for the dilaton-axion sector of the supergravity. Our result agrees with the corresponding part of the light-cone string field theory (SFT) and furthermore fixes its previously undetermined $p^+$-dependent normalization. Adopting thus fixed light-cone SFT, we compute the matrix elements of light-cone Hamiltonian involving three chiral primary states and find an agreement with a prediction from the dual Yang-Mills theory.

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