Further aspects of supersymmetric Virasoro minimal strings

A supersymmetric version of the Virasoro minimal string was defined some time ago using random matrix model techniques. Several of the special properties of the matrix model that were noted (accessible fully non-perturbatively) underlie features shared by both 0A and 0B versions of the theory. This paper develops the formalism much further, including showing how the 0A and 0B choices familiar in continuum approaches have a direct analogue in terms of building solutions of the appropriate string equations. This also illuminates several key differences between the 0A and 0B models at the level of matrix model loop observables. The natural all-orders vanishing of loops, already observed in some 0A models, translates into the same for 0B. It is also noted that the leading amplitude for a single asymptotic boundary, as well as the trumpet partition function, are characters of a 2D superconformal field theory living on the boundary of a solid torus, suggesting a 3D chiral supergravity dual. Non-perturbative results are computed as well.

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SciPost Physics
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2026-08-14
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https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.21.2.040
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Coding theory and cryptography
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Further aspects of supersymmetric Virasoro minimal strings

Clifford V. Johnson
SciPost Physics
Coding theory and cryptography
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Further aspects of supersymmetric Virasoro minimal strings

Clifford V. Johnson
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Abstract

A supersymmetric version of the Virasoro minimal string was defined some time ago using random matrix model techniques. Several of the special properties of the matrix model that were noted (accessible fully non-perturbatively) underlie features shared by both 0A and 0B versions of the theory. This paper develops the formalism much further, including showing how the 0A and 0B choices familiar in continuum approaches have a direct analogue in terms of building solutions of the appropriate string equations. This also illuminates several key differences between the 0A and 0B models at the level of matrix model loop observables. The natural all-orders vanishing of loops, already observed in some 0A models, translates into the same for 0B. It is also noted that the leading amplitude for a single asymptotic boundary, as well as the trumpet partition function, are characters of a 2D superconformal field theory living on the boundary of a solid torus, suggesting a 3D chiral supergravity dual. Non-perturbative results are computed as well.

SciPost PhysicsVol. 21(2)
University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Aspen Center for Physics
Openalex Percentile: Top 99%
Coding theory and cryptography
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