String Theory in Two Dimensions

Abstract

I review some of the recent progress in two-dimensional string theory, which is formulated as a sum over surfaces embedded in one dimension.

76 pages, Phyzzx, lectures at the 1991 ICTP Spring School; v2: postscript figures included

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• Strings from Tachyons
• ABJM theory as a Fermi gas
• Nonperturbative aspects of ABJM theory
• LSZ in LST
• Emergent Spacetime
• String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years
• Flux Backgrounds in 2D String Theory
• Gauge Invariant Matrix Model for the Â-D-Ê Closed Strings
• A Deformed Matrix Model and the Black Hole Background in Two-Dimensional String Theory
• Developments in 2D String Theory
• Twistor Approach to String Compactifications: a Review
• The Virasoro Minimal String
• The Black Hole S-Matrix from Quantum Mechanics
• Phase transitions, double-scaling limit, and topological strings
• On the S-matrix of Type 0 String Theory
• String correlators on ${\text{AdS}}_3$: Three-point functions
• Entanglement entropy in two dimensional string theory
• Russian Doll Renormalization Group, Kosterlitz-Thouless Flows, and the Cyclic sine-Gordon model
• Classical Scattering in $1+1$ Dimensional String Theory
• Particle Production in Matrix Cosmology
• From operator statistics to wormholes
• Matrix Quantum Mechanics and Two-dimensional String Theory in Non-trivial Backgrounds
• D-instantons, String Field Theory and Two Dimensional String Theory
• Marginal Deformations of Vacua with Massive boson-fermion Degeneracy Symmetry
• The Exact $S$-matrix of the Deformed $c=1$ Matrix Model
• On the BCFT Description of Holes in the c=1 Matrix Model
• Effective action and phase transitions of scalar field on the fuzzy sphere
• The Large N Harmonic Oscillator as a String Theory
• Black Hole Statistics from Holography
• Fuzzy spaces and new random matrix ensembles
• On the Exact Operator Formalism of Two-Dimensional Liouville Quantum Gravity in Minkowski Spacetime
• Matrix Models, Integrable Structures, and T-duality of Type 0 String Theory
• Conformal Algebra and Physical States in Non-critical 3-brane on R*S^3
• (Multi)Matrix Models and Interacting Clones of Liouville Gravity
• On Perturbation theory improved by Strong coupling expansion
• JT Gravity Limit of Liouville CFT and Matrix Model
• Spontaneously broken symmetry in string theory
• Hot Little String Correlators: A View From Supergravity
• Mini-BFSS in Silico
• Two Ising Models Coupled to 2-Dimensional Gravity
• Notes on Collective Field Theory of Matrix and Spin Calogero Models
• Lifshitz-like systems and AdS null deformations
• Finite [q-Oscillator] Description of 2-D String Theory
• Two Dimensional String Theory and the Topological Torus
• A Stringy Wave Function for an S^3 Cosmology
• Stability of flux vacua in the presence of charged black holes
• Random matrix approach to scalar fields on fuzzy spaces
• Black holes and thermodynamics - The first half century
• c < 1 String from Two Dimensional Black Holes
• Special geometry of local Calabi-Yau manifolds and superpotentials from holomorphic matrix models
• Entanglement in the Quantum Hall Matrix Model
• ZZ Instantons and the Non-Perturbative Dual of c = 1 String Theory
• String Field Theory
• Visions in Quantum Gravity
• Tachyon Backgrounds in 2D String Theory
• Multi-Instanton Calculus in c = 1 String Theory
• SUSY breaking by nonperturbative dynamics in a matrix model for 2D type IIA superstrings
• Extremal chiral ring states in AdS/CFT are described by free fermions for a generalized oscillator algebra
• Isometry of AdS2 And The c=1 Matrix Model
• Permutation invariant Gaussian 2-matrix models
• Supersymmetric double-well matrix model as two-dimensional type IIA superstring on RR background
• Random Surfaces and Lattice Gravity
• To see Symmetry in a Forest of Trees
• Boundary Description of Microstates of the Two-Dimensional Black Hole
• Fractional-Superstring Amplitudes, Multi-Cut Matrix Models and Non-Critical M Theory
• Doubling of Scattering Phase Shifts for Two Dimensional Strings
• c-map as c=1 string
• De Alfaro, Fubini and Furlan from multi Matrix Systems
• Into the bulk: reconstructing spacetime from the c=1 matrix model
• String correlators on ${\text{AdS}}_3$: Four-point functions
• Lectures on Naturalness, String Landscape and Multiverse
• String Theory, Black Holes and Klein's Lemma
• Bound on Lyapunov exponent in $c=1$ matrix model
• Tachyon Effective Dynamics and de Sitter Vacua
• Supersymmetric Gauge Theories from String Theory
• Complex curves and non-perturbative effects in c=1 string theory
• Time-dependent backgrounds of two dimensional string theory from the $c=1$ matrix model
• A Matrix Model with BMS${}_3$ Constraints