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Minimal String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-15 v1

Abstract

We summarize recent progress in the understanding of minimal string theory, focusing on the worldsheet description of physical operators and D-branes. We review how a geometric interpretation of minimal string theory emerges naturally from the study of the D-branes. This simple geometric picture ties together many otherwise unrelated features of minimal string theory, and it leads directly to a worldsheet derivation of the dual matrix model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409306,
  title  = {Minimal String Theory},
  author = {Nathan Seiberg and David Shih},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409306},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures, talk presented by NS at Strings '04