Minimal string theory

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.

talk: Paris 2004/06/28
string model: minimal
field theory: conformal
dimension: 2
field theory: Liouville
algebra: Virasoro
ghost
membrane model: D-brane
geometry
analytic properties

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