A matrix model dual of type 0B string theory in two dimensions

By T. Takayanagi, N. Toumbas. 2003

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We propose that type 0B string theory in two dimensions admits a dual description in terms of a one dimensional bosonic matrix model of a hermitean matrix. The potential in the matrix model is symmetric with respect to the parity-like Z2 transformation of the matrix. The two sectors in the theory, namely the NSNS and RR scalar sectors correspond to two classes of operators in the matrix model, even and odd under the Z2 symmetry respectively. We provide evidence that the matrix model successfully reconstructs the perturbative S-matrix of the string theory, and reproduces the closed string emission amplitude from unstable D-branes. Following recent work in two dimensional bosonic string, we argue that the matrix model can be identified with the theory describing N unstable D0-branes in type 0B theory. We also argue that type 0A theory is described in terms of the quantum mechanics of brane-antibrane systems.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geometry and Topology, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. E. Witten
2. D. Stanford
3. Y. Nakayama
4. D. Gaiotto
5. D. Berenstein
6. L. Rastelli
7. Zhenbin Yang
8. V. Rosenhaus

In Geometry and Topology

1. D. Gaiotto
2. L. Rastelli
3. E. Witten
4. D. Berenstein
5. Y. Nakayama
6. D. Stanford
7. Sergei Gukov
8. Tudor Dimofte

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. D. Gaiotto
2. E. Witten
3. L. Rastelli
4. Y. Nakayama
5. J. Maldacena
6. D. Stanford
7. Sergei Gukov
8. N. Seiberg

Citations in the corpus

• Liouville Field Theory — A decade after the revolution (2004, methodology): “Particularly the matrix model dual for the N = 1 super Liouville theory coupled to ĉ = 1 matter has been proposed in Takayanagi-Toumbas [174] and Douglas et.”
• A toy model for the AdS/CFT correspondence (2004, background): “Many of these results have been made more precise in the literature [5, 6, 7], including a space-time interpretation in terms of type O strings for the solution to the nonperturbative instability of the original matrix model [8].”
• JT gravity and the ensembles of random matrix theory (2019, result): “These two versions of the minimal string were related to matrix integrals in [115, 113, 116, 117], building in part on earlier work [95, 96, 97, 118, 119].”
• LSZ in LST (2004, unknown): “A generalization of this construction leads to a matrix model dual to two dimensional type 0 string theory [68,69].”
• A paradigm of open/closed duality Liouville D-branes and the Kontsevich model (2003, background): “(2)A similar understanding is available for the double-scaled matrix models of c < 1 and ĉ ≤ 1 theories [10, 11, 12].”
• A New Hat For The c=1 Matrix Model (2003, unknown): “Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0849, USA”