EXACTLY SOLVABLE ORIENTED SELFDUAL STRINGS

Mar, 1990
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 64 (1990) 3111-3114
Report number:
  • NSF-ITP-90-50,
  • MCGILL-90-07

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Abstract: (APS)
Models of random surfaces defined by means of integrals over quaternion-real self-dual random matrices are solved exactly in a double-scaling limit. Coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations are obtained for the specific heat, which takes the form r+w’, where r is the specific heat of the corresponding Hermitian-matrix model, and w satisfies a nonlinear differential equation depending on r. It is shown that the k=2 theory, which may describe a new phase of two-dimensional quantum gravity, is unitary. An alternative method of solution, based on a set of symplectically orthogonal polynomials, is indicated.
  • lattice field theory
  • random surface
  • algebra: quaternion
  • duality
  • string model
  • scaling
  • integrability
  • differential equations