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Recombination of Intersecting D-branes in Tachyon Field Theory

The mechanism of recombination of intersecting D-branes is investigated within the framework of effective tachyon field theory. We regard the branes as the kink-type tachyon condensed states and use the effective two-tachyon Lagrangian to study the off-diagonal fluctuations therein. It is seen that there is a tachyonic mode in the off-diagonal fluctuations, which signs the instability of the intersecting D-branes. We diagonalize the two-by-two tachyonic matrix field and see that the corresponding eigenfunctions could be used to describe the new recombined branes. Our prescription can be extended to discuss the general behavior of the recombination of intersection D-branes with arbitrary shapes. We present in detail the physical reasons behind the mathematical process of diagonalizing the tachyonic matrix field.


Introduction
Branes and their different configurations are known to play important roles in the unified formulation of nonperturbative string/M theory [1][2][3][4]. Brane configurations that contain tachyonic model are unstable and will decay. The decay models vary depending on the unstable brane configurations. In a series of papers, Sen had made several conjectures on tachyon condensation [5] which have drawn attention to various non-BPS D-brane configurations in string theory [6][7][8][9][10]. According to the conjectures the potential height of the tachyon potential exactly cancels the tension of the original unstable D-brane and, at the stable true vacuum, the original D-brane disappears and the kink-type tachyon condensed states correspond to lower-dimensional D-branes.
One of the interesting D-brane configurations is a pair of D-branes intersecting at an angle [11][12][13][14]. Such a scenario of intersecting branes is known to be possible to construct models similar to the standard model [15] and may provide a simple mechanism for inflation in the early universe [16].
In this paper we will investigate the mechanism of recombination of intersection D-branes. Within the framework of the effective tachyon field theory [6][7][8][9][10] we describe how a pair of D-branes intersecting at an angle shall recombine.
In the section II we briefly review the effective one-tachyon Lagrangian. In the section III we use the effective two-tachyon Lagrangian [9], in which the tachyon is described as a two-by-two matrix field, to study the diagonal fluctuation in the background of the kink solutions. The kink solutions in here are regarded as tachyon condensations of the non-BPS brane in higher dimension. As the tachyon condensated state represents a lower-dimensional BPS-brane, it is a stable configuration. Therefore the diagonal fluctuation in the background of the kink solutions will have no tachyonic mode. Then, as the main contain of this paper, we study the off-diagonal fluctuation in the background of the kink solutions. in this case as the D-branes (i.e. kinks) intersecting at an angle is unstable the off-diagonal fluctuation will have tachyonic mode. After diagonalizing the tachyonic matrix field we see that the eigenfunction can describe the new recombined branes. In the section IV we extend our method to discuss the general behavior of the recombination of intersection D-branes which possessing arbitrary function forms. We also present the physical reasons behind the mathematical process of diagonalizing the tachyonic matrix field.
Note that in a recent paper Hashimoto and Nagaoka [14] had investigated the recombination of intersecting D-branes by using the super Yang-Mills theory which are low energy effective theories of D-branes. The Yang-Mills field therein represents the dynamics field on the branes while the Higgs fields represent the locations of the D-branes. Our investigations are within the framework of tachyon field theory, thus the dynamics field on the branes are these fluctuating in the background of kink solution and the locations of the D-branes are at the zeros of tachyon field (see the next section).

Tachyon Effective Field Theory of One Brane System
The two derivative truncation of boundary string field theory which embody the tachyon dynamics is described by the Lagrangian [6-10] where τ p is the tension of the unstable D p brane. The associated field equation is There are some interesting solutions in the above field equation: (1) T = 0: This is an unstable vacuum which corresponds to the original D p brane. Its energy density is exactly equal to the D p brane tension.
(2) T = ±∞: This is the stable vacuum which is thought of as the "closed string vacuum" with vanishing energy.
(3) T = √ 2x: This is a stable one soliton solution which represents a kink solution with center at x = 0. This kink solution has tension τ p−1 = 2 √ 2πτ p which is reasonably close to the actual value of τ p−1 = √ 2πτ p . The mass square for the fluctuation modes about this soliton has the equal spacing and the mass tower starts from a massless state. There has no tachyonic mode and we can therefore identify this solution as a lower-dimensional stable BPS brane [3][4][5][6].
(4) T = ax ± by, if a 2 + b 2 = 1: As can be seen from (2.1) that the energy density of this kink solution is maximum along the trajectory ax ± by = 0. Therefore this solution represents an another stable one soliton solution which represents a kink solution with center located at ax ± by = 0. In fact, this kink solution may be regarded as the solution 3 while in a new coordinate. The intersection angle θ between the x-axis and this kink solution is It is a difficult work to find another kink solution from the field equation (2.2). However, it shall be noticed that the Lagrangian (2.1) is a truncated effective one in which the higherderivative terms have been neglected. Therefore, to make sense the finding kink solution we see that the solution can not be curved to much. The solutions 3 and 4 are surely satisfy the criteria. The fluctuation from such a kink solution is the same as the solution 3 and will be investigated in section 3.1. It will be seen that there is no tachyonic mode as the kink-type condensation is a lower dimensional stable BPS brane.

Tachyon Effective Field Theory of Two Branes System
In order to describe two branes system the tachyon field needs to be generalized to a twoby-two matrix [8][9][10]. In this paper we use the following Lagrangian of the tachyon effective field This Lagrangian has been derived from the string theory by Kutasov, Marino and Moore [10]. Minahan [9] had also used this Lagrangian to investigate the property of stretched strings in tachyon condensation models. For the two-branes system the tachyonic matrix field can be expressed as When T 0 = ax, △T = by with a 2 + b 2 = 2 then the diagonal parts, T ± ≡ ax ± by represent kinks (i.e., a stable BPS branes after tachyon condensation from a higher dimensional unstable Non-PBS branes) with the centers located at ax ± by = 0. The another diagonal fields t ± (x, y) ≡ t 0 ±△t 0 describe the fluctuations on the kink solutions T ± . The off-diagonal fields are f (x, y) which represent the lowest energy excitation of the strings stretched between a BPS brane (i.e., a kink located at ax + by = 0) and BPS brane (i.e., a kink located at ax − by = 0).

Diagonal Fluctuation of Two Branes System
Let us first neglect the off-diagonal part in the tachyon field matrix (3.2) and investigate the fluctuations of the diagonal fields t ± (x, y). In this case we can represent the tachyon field as in which we defineT 0 = T 0 + t 0 , △T 0 = △T 0 + △t 0 . σ 3 is a Pauli matrix. Then from the simple relations [1, σ 3 ] = 0, σ 2 3 = 1 and e aσ 3 = cosh(a) + σ 3 sinh(a) we can find that Substituting above relations into (3.1) the Lagrangian expanded to the second order of the fluctuation fields t ± can be found. The associated field equations are which is just the equation (3.2) and have the solutions T ± ≡ ax ± by, which represent kinks with the centers located at ax ± by = 0, if a 2 + b 2 = 2. For such a system of intersecting branes the fluctuation field t ± will satisfy the field equation The mode function and mass square of the above equation are The above solution describes a simple harmonic oscillation and the mass tower starts from a massless state, thus there has no tachyonic mode in there. These solutions are just the solution 3 or 4 in the section 2. This is a trivial phenomena as neglecting the off-diagonal interaction the two branes become independent.

Off-diagonal Fluctuation of Two Branes System
Let us now neglect the diagonal fluctuation field t ± part in the tachyon field matrix (3.2) and investigate the fluctuations of the off-diagonal fields f (x, y). In this case we can represent the tachyon field as Then, using the formula the Lagrangian (3.1) expanding to the second order in the off-diagonal tachyon field can be found. When T ± = ax ± bz, which represent intersecting kinks with the centers located at ax ± by = 0, if a 2 + b 2 = 2, then the field f (x, y), which represents the lowest string mode connecting the intersecting kinks, will satisfy the equation The mode solution and mass square of the above equation are The above solutions describes simple harmonic oscillations and the mass tower starts from a negative state with m 2 = − b 2 2 which corresponds to the mode of k = n = 0. Therefore there has tachyonic mode in the intersection D-branes when the interaction therein is turned on. The existence of the tachyonic mode signs the instability of the intersection D-branes. The tachyonic mode in here does not depend on the space coordinate. This property was first found in [6].
Note that the worldsheet spectrum of the string connecting the intersecting D-branes has a tachyonic state whose mass squared is m 2 = |b| for small b [12]. This contradicts our results. In fact, our tachyonic field system would not be changed if b is replaced by −b. Thus, as it seems difficult to obtain a spectrum proportional to |b| in solving the tachyonic field equation, the spectrum proportional to b 2 seem to be a general result if one try to study the problem from the tachyonic field model. We conjecture that such a discrepancy may be a general property in a tachyon effective field theory even if the higher-derivative terms were included 1 .
It was argued that [11][12][13][14] a pair of intersection D-branes will recombine. To describe the new recombined state we will consider the following tachyonic matrix field (3.14) in which f 0,0 is the tachyonic mode. Then, after diagonalizing the above two-by-two tachyonic matrix field we see that the eigenfunctions describe the new recombined branes are The geometry of the recombination is shown in figure 1. Note that Hashimoto and Nagaoka [14] investigated the recombination of Intersecting D-branes by using the super Yang-Mills theory which are low energy effective theories of D-branes. In their approach the Higgs fields therein represent the locations of the D-branes. They diagonalize the matrix, which is constructed from the original Higgs fields and the associated small fluctuation, to find the new eigenfunctions which, they claim to be able to represent the new locations of the combined branes. Our approach, on the other hand, use the effective tachyon field theory. We regard the branes as the kink-type tachyon condensed states and use the effective two-tachyon Lagrangian to study the off-diagonal fluctuation therein. We describe the new eigenfunctions as the configurations of the recombined branes. Our method give an alternative view to see the recombination of intersecting branes. In the next section we will use our prescription to discuss the general behavior of the recombination of intersection D-branes which possessing arbitrary function forms. We also present the physical reasons behind the mathematical process of diagonalizing the tachyonic matrix field.

General property of a Pair of Intersecting Branes
Consider the more general case in which the lower-dimensional stable BPS D-brane solutions are described be the tachyon fields T ± (x, y). Due to the potential form e −T 2 /8 in (3.1) the branes is located near the position T ± (x, y) ≈ 0. If the branes are intersecting then we can choose a new coordinate such that near the intersecting position the branes recombination can also be described as Figure 1. Therefore the mechanism of the recombination near the intersecting position shall be just that described in section 3. The other parts of the brane far away from the intersecting position does not be changed significantly as can be seen from the following argument.
For intersecting branes described by the tachyon fields T ± (x, y) there will have a tachyonic mode in the off-diagonal fluctuation f 0 (x, y), which signs the instability of the intersecting D-branes. The generally tachyonic matrix field can be expressed as in which f 0 (x, y) is a small fluctuation of the tachyonic mode. Now, after diagonalizing the above two-by-two tachyonic matrix field we see that the eigenfunctions describe the new recombined branes are We see that T new = 0 at the initial intersection positions in which T + (x, y) = T − (x, y) = 0. Thus the intersecting branes shall be recombined. The positions satisfy the relations T ± (x, y) = 0, T ∓ (x, y) = 0 represent a brane described by tachyon field T ∓ (x, y) while excluding the intersecting positions. In this case we see that, as the fluctuation field is small, T new ≈ T ∓ (x, y). Thus the recombined brane far away from the intersecting positions is approximately described by the original tachyon field T ∓ (x, y). We can therefore conclude that the parts of the brane far away from the intersecting position does not be changed significantly.
We finally present the physical reasons behind the mathematical process of diagonalizing the tachyonic matrix field.
(1) Initially we prepare a pair of intersecting D-branes with kink fields T ∓ . After turning on the interaction between the intersecting D-branes there will appear tachyonic mode fluctuation f 0 which signs the instability of the system. The tachyonic matrix field T initial with diagonal part T ∓ and off-diagonal part f 0 was used to represent the initially unstable state.
(2) To stabilize the system the unstable intersecting D-branes, which is represented by T initial , shall be recombined into two separated D-branes which would never intersect to each other anymore, because any intersecting D-branes will possess tachyonic mode fluctuation and is thus still unstable. This means that the kink fields T ∓ shall combine with tachyon field f and condense into two separated D-branes. In this case we can therefore use a diagonalized new tachyonic matrix field T new to represent the new stable state.
(3) Now, from the energy conservation we know that the system described by the tachyonic matrix fields T initial and T new shall have the same energy. Therefore, denoting the Hamiltonian as H, we have a relation (Note that as the initial and new systems are both described by the same Lagrangian L (3.1) they shall have the same Hamiltonian form H too.) (4) One can then try to find a matrix S to diagonalize the T initial , and substitute (4.4) into (4.3) to check whether the relation (4.3) was satisfied. If it was satisfied then the new recombined brane is possible to be represented by the new matrix tachyon field T new . Note that any theory has many states which have the same energy so the checking that the energies are identical could not sure that the states are the same. Therefore the above argument is just only one of the supporting evidences. In short, if the matrix field T initial , which represents initially unstable intersecting Dbranes, and its diagonalized matrix field T new , which represents two separated stable Dbranes, have the same energy then the matrix field T new may be able to represent the new recombined D-branes.
It shall be noted that as there is the term ∂ µ T in H it is not easy to perform such a checking work. However, when the fluctuation field is small then the checking work becomes more easy, as the matrix S is a unit matrix plus a matrix with small elements. Our checking has found that the relation (4.3) is consistent with (4.4) and we thus claim that T new can really represent the new recombined D-branes.

Conclusion
In this paper we investigate the mechanism of recombination of intersection D-branes within the framework of the effective tachyon field theory. We use the effective two-tachyon matrix field Lagrangian to study the off-diagonal fluctuation in the background of the kink solutions. We regard the kink solutions as the tachyon condensations of the non-BPS brane in higher dimension. In the background of the intersecting D-branes the off-diagonal fluctuations have tachyonic mode. After diagonalizing the tachyon matrix field we see that the eigenfunction can describe the new recombined branes. We generalize our method to discuss the general behavior of the recombination of intersection D-branes which possessing arbitrary function form. We also present in detail the physical reasons behind the mathematical process of diagonalizing the tachyonic matrix field. It is hoped the our prescription can be extended to discuss other unstable brane configurations such as the brane ending on branes, brane system with different dimensions, etc. We will investigate these problems in the later studying.