Minimal String Theory

Abstract

We summarize recent progress in the understanding of minimal string theory, focusing on the worldsheet description of physical operators and D-branes. We review how a geometric interpretation of minimal string theory emerges naturally from the study of the D-branes. This simple geometric picture ties together many otherwise unrelated features of minimal string theory, and it leads directly to a worldsheet derivation of the dual matrix model.

10 pages, 4 figures, talk presented by NS at Strings '04

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• The Annular Report on Non-Critical String Theory
• Loops versus Matrices - The nonperturbative aspects of noncritical string
• Annulus Amplitudes and ZZ Branes in Minimal String Theory
• The Geometry of ZZ-branes

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