Tachyon Condensation on Orbifolds and McKay Correspondence
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In this short note we present a mathematical interpretation of tachyon condensation on (three dimensional) orbifolds within the framework of boundary string field theory (BSFT). We explicitly show that important parts of decay modes in brane-antibrane systems with N = 2 boundary supersymmetry can be interpreted as the McKay correspondence described as complexes. This will give an example of the recent interpretation of D-branes as derived category. We also discuss the N = 4 boundary supersymmetry as a more refined structure. 1 E-mail: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2008