ISSN:
1573-0530
Keywords:
83E30
;
81T30
;
14C17
;
two-dimensional quantum gravity
;
Riemann surfaces
;
Painlevé I recursion relations
;
Weil-Petersson two-forms
;
Llouville path integral
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Physics
Notes:
Abstract We find a volume form on moduli space of double-punctured Riemann surfaces whose integral satisfies the Painlevé I recursion relations of the genus expansion of the specific heat of 2D gravity. This allows us to express the asymptotic expansion of the specific heat as an integral on an infinite-dimensional moduli space in the spirit of the Friedan-Shenker approach. We outline a conjectural derivation of such recursion relations using the Duistermaat-Heckman theorem.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00714381
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