Generating Erler-Schnabl-type solution for the tachyon vacuum in cubic superstring field theory

Abstract

We study a new set of identity-based solutions to analyze the problem of tachyon condensation in open bosonic string field theory and cubic superstring field theory. Even though these identity-based solutions seem to be trivial, it turns out that after performing a suitable gauge transformation, we are left with the known Erler-Schnabl-type solutions which correctly reproduce the value of the D-brane tension. This result shows explicitly that a seemingly trivial solution can generate a non-trivial configuration which precisely represents the tachyon vacuum.