activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

hep-th2026

Supersymmetric Virasoro Minimal Strings: Unified Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Treatment

Clifford V. Johnson

There are four known supersymmetric Virasoro minimal string theories, naturally coming in two pairs and labeled as 0A and 0B. We observe here that all four ar…

hep-th2026

Further aspects of Supersymmetric Virasoro Minimal Strings

Clifford V. Johnson

A supersymmetric version of the Virasoro minimal string was defined some time ago using random matrix model techniques. Several of the special properties of the matrix model that w…

hep-th2025

God of the Gaps: Random matrix models and the black hole spectral gap

Clifford V. Johnson, Mykhaylo Usatyuk

We show that random matrix models are a natural tool for understanding the appearance of a large gap in the microstate spectrum of black holes when there is a high degeneracy of st…

hep-th2025

Extended JT supergravity and random matrix models: The power of the string equation

Clifford V. Johnson, Maciej Kolanowski

A number of supersymmetric Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity theories are known to be described (in the Euclidean path integral formulation) by double-scaled random matrix models. Suc…

hep-th2025

Supersymmetric Virasoro Minimal Strings

Clifford V. Johnson

A random matrix model definition of a family of supersymmetric extensions of the Virasoro minimal string of Collier, Eberhardt, Mühlmann, and Rodriguez is presented…

hep-th2025

A differential equation for a class of correlation kernels

Clifford V. Johnson

A new differential equation is derived for an object , which when integrated over the appropriate range in , yields the kernel with w…