Rolling tachyon and the phase space of open string field theory
Minjae Cho, Ben Mazel, Xi Yin
Abstract
A bstract We construct the symplectic form on the covariant phase space of the open string field theory on a ZZ-brane in c = 1 string theory, and determine the energy of the rolling tachyon solution, confirming Sen’s earlier proposal based on boundary conformal field theory and closed string considerations.
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