The isomonodromy approach to matrix models in 2D quantum gravity

DOI10.1007/BF02096594zbMath0760.35051OpenAlexW1590857171MaRDI QIDQ1200498

Alexander V. Kitaev, Athanassios S. Fokas, Alexander R. Its

Publication date: 16 January 1993

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02096594

zbMATH Keywords

Painlevé I equationHermitian matrix modeldouble-scaling limitCross-Migdal-Douglas-Shenker limitdiscrete string equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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