Gravitational dual of tachyon condensation

Abstract

We study a system of N D3-branes in which open string tachyons survive in the low energy α′ → 0 limit. We compute the height of the tachyon potential both in the weak and strong couplings by using N = 4 super Yang-Mills and the dual AdS 5 descriptions respectively. We find an exact agreement between the two descriptions in the large N limit. This provides an example of gravitational duals of open string tachyon condensation. © SISSA 2009.