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Two-dimensional superstrings and the supersymmetric matrix model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

We present evidence that the supersymmetric matrix model of Marinari and Parisi represents the world-line theory of N unstable D-particles in type II superstring theory in two dimensions. This identification suggests that the matrix model gives a holographic description of superstrings in a two-dimensional black hole geometry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0308105,
  title  = {Two-dimensional superstrings and the supersymmetric matrix model},
  author = {John McGreevy and Sameer Murthy and Herman Verlinde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0308105},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages, 2 figures; v2: corrected eqn 4.6; v3: corrected appendices and discussion of vacua, added refs