Volumes and random matrices

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAA035MaRDI QIDQ4956662zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edward Witten

Publication date 2 September 2021

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05183

zbMATH Keywords

random matrixgauge theorysuper Riemann surfacesupergravity in two dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) (60B20) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Supergravity (83E50) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: This article is an introduction to newly discovered relations between volumes of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces or super Riemann surfaces, simple models of gravity or supergravity in two dimensions, and random matrix ensembles. (The article is based on a lecture at the conference on the Mathematics of Gauge Theory and String Theory, University of Auckland, January 2020. It has been submitted to a special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics in memory of Michael Atiyah.)

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