3 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-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-th2024
Closed universes in two dimensional gravity
Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Zi-Yue Wang, Ying Zhao
We study closed universes in simple models of two dimensional gravity, such as Jackiw-Teiteilboim (JT) gravity coupled to matter, and a toy topological model that captures the key…