High-energy asymptotics of D-brane decay amplitudes from Coulomb gas electrostatics

Abstract

We study the high-energy limit of tree-level string production amplitudes from decaying D-branes in bosonic string theory, interpreting the vertex operators as external charges interacting with a Coulomb gas corresponding to the rolling tachyon background, and performing an electrostatic analysis. In particular, we consider two open string - one closed string amplitudes and four open string amplitudes, and calculate explicit formulas for the leading exponential behavior.

17 pages, 1 figure; v2: comments and journal ref. added