Publication : t07/119
Du développement topologique des modèles de matrices à la théorie des cordes topologiques : combinatoire de surfaces par la géométrie algébrique
Orantin N. (CEA, DSM, SPhT (Service de Physique Théorique), F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE)Abstract:Année de publication : 2007
The 2-matrix model has been introduced to study Ising model on random surfaces. Since then, the link between matrix models and combinatorics of discrete surfaces has strongly tightened. This manuscript aims to investigate these deep links and extend them beyond the matrix models, following my work's evolution. First, I take care to define properly the hermitian 2 matrix model which gives rise to generating functions of discrete surfaces equipped with a spin structure. Then, I show how to compute all the terms in the topological expansion of any observable by using algebraic geometry tools. They are obtained as differential forms on an algebraic curve associated to the model: the spectral curve. In a second part, I show how to define such differentials on any algebraic curve even if it does not come from a matrix model. I then study their numerous symmetry properties under deformations of the algebraic curve. In particular, I show that these objects coincide with the topological expansion of the observable of a matrix model if the algebraic curve is the spectral curve of this model. Finally, I show that fine tuning the parameters ensure that these objects can be promoted to modular invariants and satisfy the holomorphic anomaly equation of the Kodaira-Spencer theory. This gives a new hint that the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture is correct.
Thèse
Soutenance de thèse : 2007-09-13
Preprint : arXiv:0709.2992
Keywords : matrices aleatoires, combinatoire, theorie des cordes, espaces des modules, integrabilite, geometrie algebrique
Langue : Français
NB : Directeur de thèse: Bertrand EYNARD. Université Paris 6 - UPMC.
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