Rolling Tachyon on Non-BPS Branes and $p$-Adic Strings

I. Ya. Aref'eva

Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Selected topics of $p$-adic mathematical physics and analysis, Tome 245 (2004), pp. 47-54.

Résumé

The results of the study of rolling solutions to equations of motion for a tachyon field living on an unstable D-brane in a level-truncated string field theory are presented. These solutions interpolate between different vacua of the theory in infinite time.

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