ON THE EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL OF THE $Dp -\overline{Dp}$ SYSTEM IN TYPE II THEORIES

I. PESANDO
1999 Modern Physics Letters A  
We compute the effective potential of a system composed by a Dp brane and a separated anti-Dp brane at tree level in string theory. We show explicitly that the tachyon condenses and that the scalars which describe transverse fluctuations acquire a VEV proportional to the distance.
doi:10.1142/s0217732399001644 fatcat:4amhachanjcuvorahta53bx45y