3 papers
hep-th2024
Exact Expressions For Infinitely Many Weil-Petersson Volumes
Ashton Lowenstein
Weil-Petersson volumes are the volumes of the moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces and have played an important role in the relationship between two-dimensional quantum gravi…
hep-th2024
Perturbative Unorientable JT Gravity and Matrix Models
Wasif Ahmed, Ashton Lowenstein
We consider an orthogonal polynomial formulation of the double scaling limit of multicritical matrix models in the Dyson-Wigner class. They capture the physics of 2D quantum…
hep-th2024
Open-Closed String Duality, Branes, and Topological Recursion
Ashton Lowenstein
We consider matrix models exhibiting open-closed string duality in two-dimensional string theories with various amounts of supersymmetry. In particular, a relationship between matr…