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SUMMARY:Victor Rodriguez (Princeton U.)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/AnLy/30/">Th
 e Virasoro minimal string and 2d string cosmology</a>\nby Victor Rodriguez
  (Princeton U.) as part of AnLy Strings and Fields online seminars\n\n\nAb
 stract\nI will introduce a new critical string theory in two dimensions an
 d explain that this theory\, viewed as two-dimensional quantum gravity on 
 the worldsheet\, is equivalent to a double-scaled matrix integral. The wor
 ldsheet theory consists of Liouville CFT coupled to timelike Liouville CFT
 . The double-scaled matrix integral has as its leading density of states t
 he universal Cardy density of primaries in a two-dimensional CFT of centra
 l charge c\, thus motivating the name Virasoro minimal string. The duality
  holds for any value of the continuous parameter c and reduces to the JT g
 ravity/matrix integral duality in the large central charge limit\, providi
 ng a precise stringy realization of JT gravity. From a target spacetime po
 int of view\, I will describe how this theory may be viewed as a cosmologi
 cal background in two dimensions.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/AnLy/30/
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