2D Quantum Gravity, Matrix Models and Graph Combinatorics

Abstract

Lecture notes given at the summer school ``Applications of random matrices to physics", Les Houches, June 2004.

60 pages, 17 figures, uses harvmac and epsf macros, nasty problem with figbox solved

References in corpus (5)

• Geodesic Distance in Planar Graphs
• Q-states Potts model on a random planar lattice
• The first-order phase transition between dimerized-antiferromagnetic and uniform-antiferromagnetic phases in Cu_(1-x)M_xGeO_3
• Random trees between two walls: Exact partition function
• The dilute Potts model on random surfaces

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• Lectures on non-perturbative effects in large N gauge theories, matrix models and strings
• Les Houches lectures on matrix models and topological strings
• Double scaling limit of the prismatic tensor model
• A Givental-like Formula and Bilinear Identities for Tensor Models
• From operads and PROPs to Feynman Processes
• Valence independent formula for the equilibrium measure
• On triangulations with high vertex degree