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An sp-brane can be viewed as the creation and decay of an unstable D(p+1)-brane. It is argued that the decaying half of an sp-brane can be described by a variant of boundary Liouville theory. The pair creation of open strings by a decaying s-brane is studied in the minisuperspace approximation to the Liouville theory. In this approximation a Hagedorn-like divergence is found in the pair creation rate, suggesting the s-brane energy is rapidly transferred into closed string radiation.
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Strominger, A. (2003). Open String Creation By S-Branes. In: Baulieu, L., Rabinovici, E., Harvey, J., Pioline, B., Windey, P. (eds) Progress in String, Field and Particle Theory. NATO Science Series, vol 104. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0211-0_10
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