PARTITION FUNCTIONS OF MATRIX MODELS AS THE FIRST SPECIAL FUNCTIONS OF STRING THEORY II: KONTSEVICH MODEL

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09046278zbMATH Open1179.81127arXiv0811.2825OpenAlexW3102639565WikidataQ58009713 ScholiaQ58009713MaRDI QIDQ3401601FDOQ3401601

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Publication date: 30 January 2010

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In arXiv:hep-th/0310113 we started a program of creating a reference-book on matrix-model tau-functions, the new generation of special functions, which are going to play an important role in string theory calculations. The main focus of that paper was on the one-matrix Hermitian model tau-functions. The present paper is devoted to a direct counterpart for the Kontsevich and Generalized Kontsevich Model (GKM) tau-functions. We mostly focus on calculating resolvents (=loop operator averages) in the Kontsevich model, with a special emphasis on its simplest (Gaussian) phase, where exists a surprising integral formula, and the expressions for the resolvents in the genus zero and one are especially simple (in particular, we generalize the known genus zero result to genus one). We also discuss various features of generic phases of the Kontsevich model, in particular, a counterpart of the unambiguous Gaussian solution in the generic case, the solution called Dijkgraaf-Vafa (DV) solution. Further, we extend the results to the GKM and, in particular, discuss the p-q duality in terms of resolvents and corresponding Riemann surfaces in the example of dualities between (2,3) and (3,2) models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.2825

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zbMATH Keywords

matrix modelsKontsevich model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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