Minimal string theory
Abstract
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. To cite this article: N. Seiberg, D. Shih, C. R. Physique 6 (2005).
- Publication:
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Comptes Rendus Physique
- Pub Date:
- March 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.crhy.2004.12.007
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0409306
- Bibcode:
- 2005CRPhy...6..165S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 4 figures, talk presented by NS at Strings '04