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Bulk correlation functions in 2D quantum gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We compute bulk 3- and 4-point tachyon correlators in the 2d Liouville gravity with non-rational matter central charge c<1, following and comparing two approaches. The continuous CFT approach exploits the action on the tachyons of the ground ring generators deformed by Liouville and matter ``screening charges''. A by-product general formula for the matter 3-point OPE structure constants is derived. We also consider a ``diagonal'' CFT of 2D quantum gravity, in which the degenerate fields are restricted to the diagonal of the semi-infinite Kac table. The discrete formulation of the theory is a generalization of the ADE string theories, in which the target space is the semi-infinite chain of points.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0505078,
  title  = {Bulk correlation functions in 2D quantum gravity},
  author = {I. K. Kostov and V. B. Petkova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0505078},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures