Unitary And Hermitian Matrices In An External Field II: The Kontsevich Model And Continuum Virasoro Constraints

Loop equations of matrix models express the invariance of the models under field redefinitions. We use loop equations to prove that it is possible to define continuum times for the generic hermitian {1-matrix} model such that all correlation functions in the double scaling limit agree with the corresponding correlation functions of the Kontsevich model expressed in terms of kdV times. In addition the double scaling limit of the partition function of the hermitian matrix model...

We construct new realizations of the Virasoro algebra inspired by the Calogero model. The Virasoro algebra we find acts as a kind of spectrum-generating algebra of the Calogero model. We furthermore present the superextension of these results and introduce a class of higher-spin extensions of the Virasoro algebra which are of the $W_\infty$ - type.

In this paper, we construct the super Virasoro algebra with an arbitrary conformal dimension $\Delta$ from the generalized $\mathcal{R}(p,q)$-deformed quantum algebra and investigate the $\mathcal{R}(p,q)$-deformed super Virasoro algebra with the particular conformal dimension $\Delta=1$. Furthermore, we perform the R(p,q)-conformal Virasoro n-algebra, the $\mathcal{R}(p,q)$-conformal super Virasoro n-algebra ($n$ even) and discuss a toy model for the $\mathcal{R}(p,q)$-confo...

Previously we gave a proof of the Feigin--Fuchs character formula for the irreducible unitary discrete series of the Virasoro algebra with 0<c<1. The proof showed directly that the mutliplicity space arising in the coset construction of Goddard, Kent and Olive was irreducible, using the elementary part of the unitarity criterion of Friedan, Qiu and Shenker, giving restrictions on h for c=1-6/m(m+1) with m>2. In this paper we consider the same problem in the limiting case of t...

The structure constants for Moyal brackets of an infinite basis of functions on the algebraic manifolds M of pseudo-unitary groups U(N_+,N_-) are provided. They generalize the Virasoro and W_\infty algebras to higher dimensions. The connection with volume-preserving diffeomorphisms on M, higher generalized-spin and tensor operator algebras of U(N_+,N_-) is discussed. These centrally-extended, infinite-dimensional Lie-algebras provide also the arena for non-linear integrable f...

The Virasoro constraints play the important role in the study of matrix models and in understanding of the relation between matrix models and CFTs. Recently the localization calculations in supersymmetric gauge theories produced new families of matrix models and we have very limited knowledge about these matrix models. We concentrate on elliptic generalization of hermitian matrix model which corresponds to calculation of partition function on $S^3 \times S^1$ for vector multi...

The quantum super-algebra structure on the deformed super Virasoro algebra is investigated. More specifically we established the possibility of defining a non trivial Hopf super-algebra on both one and two-parameters deformed super Virasoro algebras.

In our previous publications we introduced differential calculus on the enveloping algebras U(gl(m)) similar to the usual calculus on the commutative algebra Sym(gl(m)). The main ingredient of our calculus are quantum partial derivatives which turn into the usual partial derivatives in the classical limit. In the particular case m=2 we prolonged this calculus on a central extension A of the algebra U(gl(2)). In the present paper we consider the problem of a further extension ...

These are the notes for a Part III course given in the University of Cambridge in autumn 1998. They contain an exposition of the representation theory of the Lie algebras of compact matrix groups, affine Kac-Moody algebras and the Virasoro algebra from a unitary point of view. The treatment uses many of the methods of conformal field theory, in particular the Goddard-Kent-Olive construction and the Kazami-Suzuki supercharge operator, a generalisation of the Dirac operator. Th...

We construct the ($\beta$-deformed) higher order total derivative operators and analyze their remarkable properties. In terms of these operators, we derive the higher order constraints for the ($\beta$-deformed) Hermitian matrix models. We prove that these ($\beta$-deformed) higher order constraints are reducible to the Virasoro constraints. Meanwhile, the Itoyama-Matsuo conjecture for the constraints of the Hermitian matrix model is proved. We also find that through rescalin...