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A Sojourn Through c=1 String Theory
Abstract
We revisit the S-matrix, the thermal S-matrix and the thermal free energy of c=1 string theory from the worldsheet perspective. By numerically integrating Virasoro conformal blocks with DOZZ structure constants, we compute the scattering amplitudes and thermal amplitudes up to 6-point at tree level and up to 3-point at one loop, in addition to the genus two thermal free energy. All results are in agreement with the predicted answers from the c=1 matrix model.
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BibTeX
@misc{christian2026sojourn,
title = {{A Sojourn Through $c=1$ String Theory}},
author = {Sam Christian and Yuchen Wang and Xi Yin and Yutai Zhang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.03792},
eprint = {2611.03792},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03792},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Sojourn Through c=1 String Theory
AU - Sam Christian
AU - Yuchen Wang
AU - Xi Yin
AU - Yutai Zhang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.03792
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03792
AB - We revisit the S-matrix, the thermal S-matrix and the thermal free energy of c=1 string theory from the worldsheet perspective. By numerically integrating Virasoro conformal blocks with DOZZ structure constants, we compute the scattering amplitudes and thermal amplitudes up to 6-point at tree level and up to 3-point at one loop, in addition to the genus two thermal free energy. All results are in agreement with the predicted answers from the c=1 matrix model.
ER -