Abdalla / Dalmazi / Zadra 2D-Gravity in Non-Critical Strings

Discrete and Continuum Approaches
1994
ISBN: 978-3-540-48336-6
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 20, 319 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs

A comprehensive survey of the use of the Liouville (and super-Liouville) equation in (super)string theory outside the critical dimension, and of the complementary approach based on the discretized space-time - known as the matrix model approach. The authors pay particular attention to supersymmetry, both in the continuum formulation and through the consideration of the super-eigenvalue problem. The methods presented here are important in a large number of complex problems, e.g. random surfaces, 2-D gravity and large-N quantum chromodynamics, and this comparitive study of the different methods permits a cross-evaluation of the results when both methods are valid, combined with new predictions when only one of the methods may be applied.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abdalla, E.

Dalmazi, D.

Zadra, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Correlation Functions in the Bosonic Theory (Continuum Approach for Spherical Topology).- Hermitian Matrix Model.- Conformal Basis for Scaling Operators.- Correlation Functions for the N=1 Super Liouville Theory.- N=1 Super Eigenvalue Model.- Correlation Functions in N=2 Super Liouville Theory.- Final Remarks and Outlook.