Matrix models of 2d gravity

Abstract

These are introductory lectures for a general audience that give an overview of the subject of matrix models and their application to random surfaces, 2d gravity, and string theory. They are intentionally 1.5 years out of date. 0. Canned Diatribe, Introduction, and Apologies 1. Discretized surfaces, matrix models, and the continuum limit 2. All genus partition functions 3. KdV equations and other models 4. Quick tour of Liouville theory

Trieste Lectures (July, 1991), 40pp

References in corpus (2)

• Applied Conformal Field Theory
• World Sheet and Space Time Physics in Two Dimensional (Super) String Theory

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