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Thermal Tachyon Cosmology
We show that in a multi D\={D} branes system with high temperature, there may
exist a thermal cosmological phase before usual tachyon inflation. Though this
thermal phase can be very transitory, it may has some interesting applications
for early tachyon/brane cosmology.Comment: 5 pages, no figures. new version with 6 pages, part paragraphs were
rewritten and title was slightly changed, to publish in PL
On Tachyon Condensation of Intersecting Noncommutative Branes in M(atrix) Theory
The interaction between the intersecting noncommutative D-branes (or
membranes) is investigated within the M(atrix) theory. We first evaluate the
spectrum of the off-diagonal fluctuation and see that there is a tachyon mode,
which signals the instability of the intersecting branes. We next explain in
detail how the tachyon modes (which are the off-diagonal fluctuations) can be
combined with the original branes (which are the diagonal elements) to become a
new diagonal matrix, which then represents the new recombined configurations
after the tachyon condensation. The tachyon condensation configurations of the
noncommutative branes we find are different from those of the commutative cases
studied in the previous literatures.Comment: Latex, 11 pages, typos correcte
Interacting holographic tachyon model of dark energy
We propose a holographic tachyon model of dark energy with interaction
between the components of the dark sector. The correspondence between the
tachyon field and the holographic dark energy densities allows the
reconstruction of the potential and the dynamics of the tachyon scalar field in
a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We show that this model can
describe the observed accelerated expansion of our universe with a parameter
space given by the most recent observational results.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in IJMP
D-brane Dynamics and Creations of Open and Closed Strings after Recommbination
A quantum-mechanical technique is used within the framework of U(2)
super-Yang-Mills theory to investigate what happens in the process after
recombination of two D-p-branes at one angle. Two types of initial conditions
are considered, one of which with is a candidate of inflation mechanism.
It is observed that the branes' shapes come to have three extremes due to
localization of tachyon condensation. Furthermore, open string pairs connecting
the decaying D-branes are shown to be created; most part of the released energy
is used to create them. It also strongly suggests that creation of closed
strings happens afterward. Closed strings as gravitational radiation from the
D-branes are also shown to be created. A few speculations are also given on
implications of the above phenomena for an inflation model.Comment: 39pages,Latex,9 eps-figs,in v4 creation of closed strings discussed,
energy dissipation by rads. replaced by that by creations of strings; in v5
logic to argue pair-creation of open strings corrected, their number density,
energy distribution to them, energy flux of gravi. radiation evaluated
quantitatively, 2 intuitive figs.added, 1 initial cond. modified: overlapping
-> parallel, refs. on rolling tachyons added;in v6 distribution of the
releassed energy corrected:its most part used to created open string pair
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