Percolation on strings and the cover-up of the c=1 disaster

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90248-8MaRDI QIDQ1967698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Geoffrey Harris

Publication date 6 March 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9310137

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We study percolation on the worldsheets of string theory for $c=0,1/2,1$ and $2$. For $c<1$ we find that critical exponents measured from simulations agree quite well with the theoretical values. For $c=1$ we show how log corrections determined from the exact solution reconcile numerical results with the KPZ predictions. We extend this analysis to the large $c$ regime and estimate how finite-size effects will effectively raise the ground state energy, masking the presence of the tachyon for moderate values of $c>1$. It thus appears likely that simulations for $c=2,3ldots$ on numerically accessible lattices will fail to even capture the qualitative behavior of the continuum limit.

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• Analytical and numerical study of a model of dynamically triangulated random surfaces
• Recent progress in the theory of noncritical strings
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• The bosonic string represented as graphs: new Monte-Carlo simulations
• Ward identities in two-dimensional string theory

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• Tachyon correlation functions in perturbative string theory

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