English

Knots and Matrix Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v1 Quantum Algebra q-alg

Abstract

We consider a matrix model with d matrices NxN and show that in the limit of large N and d=0 the model describes the knot diagrams. The same limit in matrix string theory is also discussed. We speculate that a prototypical M(atrix) without matrix theory exists in void.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9706146,
  title  = {Knots and Matrix Models},
  author = {I. Ya. Arefeva and I. V. Volovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9706146},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, LaTex, 6 figures