Tachyon condensation
Tachyon condensation In physics, and most notably in string theory, tachyon condensation is a process in which a tachyonic ... imaginary mass is troubling, and many proposed tachyon models involve violating causality. The understanding ...
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Talk:Tachyon condensation
Talk:Tachyon condensation Actually, if you look at the QFT ...
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Tachyon
Tachyon A tachyon (from the Greek ταχύς takhús, meaning "swift ... In the language of special relativity, a tachyon is a particle with space-like four-momentum and imaginary proper time. A tachyon is constrained to the space-like portion ... special relativity perspective) As mentioned above, a tachyon is a particle with space-like ...
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K-theory (physics)
... of D9 and anti-D9-branes after tachyon condensation. Such stacks of branes are inconsistent in ... classification of D-branes. K-Theory from Tachyon Condensation Ashoke Sen has conjectured that, in the ... spacefilling D9 and anti D9 branes via tachyon condensation. The topology of the resulting ...
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Talk:Faster-than-light
... light be a positive real number? See tachyon and tachyon condensation (and their talk pages) for a more ... is a _lower_ bound to velocity (see tachyon). While it is strongly suspected that some ... is only valid in certain cases (see tachyon condensation), nobody's actually managed to ...
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D-brane
... we find a type known as a tachyon, which has some odd properties, like imaginary ... attached to this brane lead to a tachyon field "living" on the brane's volume ... of D9 and anti D9-branes via tachyon condensation. Edward Witten has shown that such configurations ...
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String (physics)
... vibration of an open string is a tachyon and can undergo tachyon condensation. One of the other vibration modes of ...
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Category:String theory
... theory landscape Supersplit supersymmetry Superstring theory T Tachyon Tachyon condensation Topological string theory Twisted sector Type I ...
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List of string theory topics
... theory matrix string theory nonlinear sigma model tachyon condensation RNS formalism string theory landscape History first ... Seiberg duality Particles and fields graviton dilaton tachyon Ramond-Ramond field Kalb-Ramond field magnetic ...
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Higgs mechanism
... be understood as an elementary case of tachyon condensation where the role of the tachyon is played by a scalar field called ...
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