3 papers
hep-th2026
Resolvent reconstruction of minimal strings beyond KdV
Wasif Ahmed, Joydeep Naskar
Minimal strings offer two ways to study quantum surfaces: through a spectral curve or through a differential equation. We ask how much of the quantum equation can be recovered once…
hep-th2025
Weil-Petersson volumes for extended JT supergravity from ordinary differential equations
Wasif Ahmed, Clifford V. Johnson, Krishan Saraswat
Recent work [1] produced an efficient method for computing Weil-Petersson volumes using two ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that appear naturally in double scaled random mat…
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…