Tachyon condensation on a noncommutative torus - art. no. 086001

We discuss noncommutative solitons on a noncommutative torus and their appl ication to tachyon condensation. In the large B limit, they can be exactly described by the Powers-Rieffel projection operators known in the mathemati cal literature. The resulting soliton spectrum is consistent with T duality and is surprisingly interesting. It is shown that an instability arises fo r any D-branes, leading to the decay into many smaller D-branes. This pheno menon is the consequence of the fact that the K-homology for a type II von Neumann factor is labeled by R.