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2D-Gravity in Non-Critical Strings: Discrete and Continuum Approaches

By E. Abdalla , M. C. B. Abdalla , D. Dalmazi , A. Zadra (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1994
ISBN
978-3-540-57805-5, 978-3-540-48336-6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-48336-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4836158 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs 20
Pages
IX, 319 pp.\324
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
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Description

This book contains a survey of the use of the Liouville (and super-Liouville) equation in (super)string theory outside the critical dimension, and of the complementary approach based on the discretized space-time, known as the matrix model approach. Supersymmetry is given particular attention, both in the continuum formulation, by means of the Liouville equation, and through the consideration of the super-eigenvalue problem. The methods presented here are important in a large number of complex problems, e.g. random surfaces, 2-D gravity and large-N quantum chromodynamics. The comparison of different methods in the study of such problems permits a cross-evaluation of the results when both methods are applicable and new predictions when only one of the methods may be used.

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