4 papers
"Massive" Conformal Field Theories and application to Nambu-Goto string
Yuri Makeenko
I describe the recent progress in understanding diffeomorphism invariant two-dimensional theories with dimensionful parameters which have nevertheless traceless improved energy-mom…
Notes on the Loop Equation in Loop Space
Yuri Makeenko
The loop equation satisfied by Wilson's loops in QCD is reformulated as a functional Laplace equation. Discretizing the loop space by polygons, Green's function of the functional L…
Nambu-Goto string as a higher-derivative Liouville theory
Yuri Makeenko
I propose a generalization of the Liouville action which corresponds to the Nambu-Goto string like the usual Liouville action corresponds to the Polyakov string. The two differ by…
Strings from Nambu-Goto to Polyakov and back
Yuri Makeenko
I discuss the recent progress in bypassing the KPZ barrier for the existence of nonperturbative bosonic strings in . I consider string anomalies which emerge from higher te…