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c-map as c=1 string
We show the existence of a duality between the c-map space describing the
universal hypermultiplet at tree level and the matrix model description of
two-dimensional string theory compactified at a self-dual radius and perturbed
by a sine-Liouville potential. It appears as a particular case of a general
relation between the twistor description of four-dimensional quaternionic
geometries and the Lax formalism for Toda hierarchy. Furthermore, we give an
evidence that the instanton corrections to the c-map metric coming from
NS5-branes can be encoded into the Baker-Akhiezer function of the integrable
hierarchy.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figure
Mahef 1 C
The entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images are unavailable. For assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Philippe Beaujard (Director of Research, French National Centre for Scientific Research). Technical Team: Dr. Vika Zafrin (Digital Scholarship Librarian, BU Libraries), Eleni Castro (OpenBU and Electronic Theses & Dissertations Librarian, BU Libraries), Dr. Fallou Ngom (Director of the African Studies Center), Dr. Peter Quella (Assistant Director, African Studies Center), Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science), and Zachary Gersten (Research Assistant, African Studies Center). This collection of Malagasy Ajami materials is copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. This project is partly funded by the BU African Studies Center. We thank Dr. Tim Longman, past Director of the African Studies Center, and the entire African Studies team for their support. For Inquiries: Please contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).The material is the third part of the first of four texts owned by Mosa Mahefamanana, a religious chief (called katibo in Malagasy), and then by his daughter, named Iabani’i Grity (short for Marguerite). Mosa Mahefamanana belonged to the Anakara Clan and lived in a village called Vatomasina in the Antemoro region (in the valley of the Matatàña River). The original author of the material is unknown. The material was photographed between 1983 and 1990. The pages were made out of a local plant called harandrànto in Malagasy, likely of the genus Afzelia. The material was bound in zebu skin and sinew. While the exact content of material is unknown, it is believed to contain guidance for charms, divination, and healing through prayers, geomancy, and astrology
Is S=1 for c=1?
The string in the Liouville field theory approach is shown to possess a
nontrivial tree-level -matrix which satisfies factorization property implied
by unitary, if all the extra massive physical states are included.Comment: 11 page
Exceptional boundary states at c=1
We consider the CFT of a free boson compactified on a circle, such that the
compactification radius is an irrational multiple of . Apart
from the standard Dirichlet and Neumann boundary states, Friedan suggested [1]
that an additional 1-parameter family of boundary states exists. These states
break U(1) symmetry of the theory, but still preserve conformal invariance. In
this paper we give an explicit construction of these states, show that they are
uniquely determined by the Cardy-Lewellen sewing constraints, and we study the
spectrum in the `open string channel', which is given here by a continous
integral with a nonnegative measure on the space of conformal weights.Comment: 18 pages; v2 corrected assumptions (now weaker), results unchange
Boundary Liouville theory at c=1
The c=1 Liouville theory has received some attention recently as the
Euclidean version of an exact rolling tachyon background. In an earlier paper
it was shown that the bulk theory can be identified with the interacting c=1
limit of unitary minimal models. Here we extend the analysis of the c=1-limit
to the boundary problem. Most importantly, we show that the FZZT branes of
Liouville theory give rise to a new 1-parameter family of boundary theories at
c=1. These models share many features with the boundary Sine-Gordon theory, in
particular they possess an open string spectrum with band-gaps of finite width.
We propose explicit formulas for the boundary 2-point function and for the
bulk-boundary operator product expansion in the c=1 boundary Liouville model.
As a by-product of our analysis we also provide a nice geometric interpretation
for ZZ branes and their relation with FZZT branes in the c=1 theory.Comment: 37 pages, 1 figure. Minor error corrected, slight change in result
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c = 1 Two Dimensional Quantum Gravity
The continuum (Liouville) approach to the two-dimensional (2-D) quantum
gravity is reviewed with particular attention to the conformal matter
coupling, and new results on a related problem of dilaton gravity are reported.
After finding the physical states, we examine the procedure to compute
correlation functions. The physical states in the relative cohomology show up
as intermediate state poles of the correlation functions. The states in the
absolute cohomology but not in the relative cohomology arise as auxiliary
fields in string field theory. The Liouville approach is applied also to the
quantum treatment of the dilaton gravity. The physical states are obtained from
the BRST cohomology and correlation functions are computed in the dilaton
gravity.Comment: A talk given at the International Symposium on Quantum Physics and
the Universe, Waseda University, August 19-22, 1992 (revised adding a
reference in ref.8 and two references in ref.9) 16pages, TIT/HEP--20
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