3 papers
hep-th2002
Old Puzzles
Christof Schmidhuber
In this talk I first briefly review how far we have come in answering old questions about the most fundamental building blocks of matter. I begin with things we know, which is the…
hep-th1993
Extending the Theory of Random Surfaces
Christof Schmidhuber, Caltech Ph. D. thesis
The theory of embedded random surfaces, equivalent to two--dimensional quantum gravity coupled to matter, is reviewed, further developed and partly generalized to four dimensions.…
hep-th1993
Running Coupling Constants in 2D Gravity
Christof Schmidhuber
The renormalization group flow in two--dimensional field theories that are coupled to gravity is discussed at the example of the sine-Gordon model. In order to derive the phase dia…