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A New Hat For The c=1 Matrix Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v5

Abstract

We consider two dimensional supergravity coupled to c^=1\hat c=1 matter. This system can also be interpreted as noncritical type 0 string theory in a two dimensional target space. After reviewing and extending the traditional descriptions of this class of theories, we provide a matrix model description. The 0B theory is similar to the realization of two dimensional bosonic string theory via matrix quantum mechanics in an inverted harmonic oscillator potential; the difference is that we expand around a non-perturbatively stable vacuum, where the matrix eigenvalues are equally distributed on both sides of the potential. The 0A theory is described by a quiver matrix model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0307195,
  title  = {A New Hat For The c=1 Matrix Model},
  author = {M. R. Douglas and I. R. Klebanov and D. Kutasov and J. Maldacena and E. Martinec and N. Seiberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0307195},
  year   = {2007}
}

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71 pages, minor changes (references added, typos corrected) in versions 2, 3, 4, 5

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