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9 papers

hep-th2026

The Runkel-Watts string

Mattia Biancotto, Lorenz Eberhardt, Victor A. Rodriguez +1

We introduce and solve a new family of two-dimensional string theories obtained by coupling Liouville CFT to the generalized Runkel-Watts CFT. By taking an appropriate limit of the…

hep-th2026

strings as a matrix integral

Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Victor A. Rodriguez

We study the perturbative -matrix of the string and show that it admits a description in terms of a double-scaled (0+0)-dimensional matrix integral based on the spectral c…

hep-th2026

Asymptotic bootstrap for unitary matrix integrals at complex coupling

David Berenstein, João Rodrigues, Victor A. Rodriguez

We apply an asymptotic bootstrap estimate method to the non-perturbative study of unitary matrix integrals. The method combines exact recursion relations with asymptotic control of…

hep-th2025

ADE Minimal Strings and Multi-Matrix Duals

Victor A. Rodriguez, Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Zi-Yue Wang

We revisit ADE minimal string theories, focusing on the D- and E-series minimal models coupled to Liouville theory. Unlike the A-series, whose duals are solvable two-matrix models,…

hep-th2025

Goldilocks and the bootstrap

David Berenstein, Victor A. Rodriguez

We study simplified bootstrap problems for probability distributions on the infinite line and the circle. We show that the rapid convergence of the bootstrap method for problems on…

hep-th2025

The complex Liouville string: worldsheet boundaries and non-perturbative effects

Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Beatrix Mühlmann +1

We investigate general observables of the complex Liouville string with worldsheet boundaries. We develop a universal formalism that reduces such observables to ordinary closed str…