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Bound state of dimers on a spherical surface
The study of particle motion on spherical surfaces is relevant to adsorption
on buckyballs and other solid particles. This paper reports results for the
binding energy of such dimers, consisting of two light particles (He atoms or
hydrogen molecules) constrained to move on a spherical surface. The binding
energy reaches a particularly large value when the radius of the sphere is
about 3/4 of the particles' diameter.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to JLTP, conference proceedings QFS
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Bulk correlation functions in 2D quantum gravity
We compute bulk 3- and 4-point tachyon correlators in the 2d Liouville
gravity with non-rational matter central charge c<1, following and comparing
two approaches. The continuous CFT approach exploits the action on the tachyons
of the ground ring generators deformed by Liouville and matter ``screening
charges''. A by-product general formula for the matter 3-point OPE structure
constants is derived. We also consider a ``diagonal'' CFT of 2D quantum
gravity, in which the degenerate fields are restricted to the diagonal of the
semi-infinite Kac table. The discrete formulation of the theory is a
generalization of the ADE string theories, in which the target space is the
semi-infinite chain of points.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
U(N) Gauge Theory and Lattice Strings
The U(N) gauge theory on a D-dimensional lattice is reformulated as a theory
of lattice strings (a statistical model of random surfaces). The Boltzmann
weights of the surfaces can have both signs and are tuned so that the
longitudinal modes of the string are elliminated. The U(\infty) gauge theory is
described by noninteracting planar surfaces and the 1/N corrections are
produced by surfaces with higher topology as well as by contact interactions
due to microscopic tubes, trousers, handles, etc. We pay special attention to
the case D=2 where the sum over surfaces can be performed explicitly, and
demonstrate that it reproduces the known exact results for the free energy and
Wilson loops in the continuum limit. In D=4 dimensions, our lattice string
model reproduces the strong coupling phase of the gauge theory. The weak
coupling phase is described by a more complicated string whose world surface
may have windows. A possible integration measure in the space of continuous
surfaces is suggested.Comment: 37 pages, 11 figures not included ; An extended version explaining in
addition the construction of the lattice string ansatz in D >2 dimensions.
(Note that the title has been changed.
Loop Equations for + and - Loops in c = 1/2 Non-Critical String Theory
New loop equations for all genera in non-critical string
theory are constructed. Our loop equations include two types of loops, loops
with all Ising spins up (+ loops) and those with all spins down ( loops).
The loop equations generate an algebra which is a certain extension of
algebra and are equivalent to the constraints derived before in the
matrix-model formulation of 2d gravity. Application of these loop equations to
construction of Hamiltonian for string field theory is
considered.Comment: 21 pages, LaTex file, no figure
Integrable flows in c=1 string theory
In these notes we review the method to construct integrable deformations of
the compactified c=1 bosonic string theory by primary fields (momentum or
winding modes), developed recently in collaboration with S. Alexandrov and V.
Kazakov. The method is based on the formulation of the string theory as a
matrix model. The flows generated by either momentum or winding modes (but not
both) are integrable and satisfy the Toda lattice hierarchy.Comment: sect.1 extended and typos correcte
Integrability in SFT and new representation of KP tau-function
We are investigating the properties of vacuum and boundary states in the CFT
of free bosons under the conformal transformation. We show that transformed
vacuum (boundary state) is given in terms of tau-functions of dispersionless KP
(Toda) hierarchies. Applications of this approach to string field theory is
considered. We recognize in Neumann coefficients the matrix of second
derivatives of tau-function of dispersionless KP and identify surface states
with the conformally transformed vacuum of free field theory.Comment: 25 pp, LaTeX, reference added in the Section 3.
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