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A Universal Fractal Structure of 2D Quantum Gravity for c > 1

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We investigate the fractal structure of 2d2d quantum gravity coupled to matter by measuring the distributions of so-called baby universes. We demonstrate that the method works well as long as c1c \leq 1. For c>1c >1 it is not clear what distribution to expect. However, we observe strikingly similar distributions for various kinds of matter fields with the same cc. This indicate that there might be some range of c>1c >1 where the central charge of the matter fields alone determines the fractal structure of gravity coupled to matter. The hypothesis that the string susceptibility \g=1/3\g = 1/3 is found to be compatible with the data for 1<c41 < c \leq 4.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9312076,
  title  = {A Universal Fractal Structure of 2D Quantum Gravity for c > 1},
  author = {J. Ambjorn and G. Thorleifsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9312076},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages. compressed postscript file. Uncompressed size 3 Mb. Latex file without figures available by request. NBI-HE-93-64