%0 Journal Article
%T A Note on a Proposal for the Tachyon State in Vacuum String Field Theory
%A Leonardo Rastelli
%A Ashoke Sen
%A Barton Zwiebach
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/02/034
%X We discuss the proposal of Hata and Kawano for the tachyon fluctuation around a solution of vacuum string field theory representing a D25 brane. We give a conformal field theory construction of their state -- a local insertion of a tachyon vertex operator on the sliver surface state, and explain why the on-shell momentum condition emerges correctly. We also show that a naive computation of the D25-brane tension using data for the three point coupling of this state gives an answer that is $(\pi^2/3)(16/27\ln 2)^3 \simeq 2.0558$ times the expected answer. We demonstrate that this problem arises because the HK state does not satisfy the equations of motion in a strong sense required for the computation of D-brane tension from the on-shell 3-tachyon coupling.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111153v1