Published December 18, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

A new continuum limit of matrix models

  • 1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, NL-3584 CE Utrecht (Netherlands)
  • 2. Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen O (Denmark)
  • 3. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, High Energy Theory Group, 2-12-1 Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551 (Japan)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 3, 107 Reykjavik (Iceland)
  • 5. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom)
  • 6. Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden (Netherlands)

Description

We define a new scaling limit of matrix models which can be related to the method of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) used when investigating two-dimensional quantum gravity. Surprisingly, the new scaling limit of the matrix models is also a matrix model, thus explaining why the recently developed CDT continuum string field theory [J. Ambjorn, R. Loll, Y. Watabiki, W. Westra, S. Zohren, (arXiv: 0802.0719)] has a matrix-model representation [J. Ambjorn, R. Loll, Y. Watabiki, W. Westra, S. Zohren, (arXiv: 0804.0252)]

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.11.003

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.11.003;
PII
S0370-2693(08)01349-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
670
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 224-230
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40050381
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
MATRICES; QUANTUM GRAVITY; STRING THEORY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; M-THEORY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.