Talk:Non-critical string

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[edit] Plea for help

This page is pretty bare. Please help me spruce it up. I'm not going to make any changes right this second, but let me list some things that would be worth including:

1.) String theory interpretation as "linear dilaton" background

2.) Some discussion of Liouville theory(worldsheet gravity)

3.) Special emphasis on two-dimensional strings. Start with just the taxonomy, perhaps, then move onto matrix models etc.

4.) References

5.) Connection with asymptotically free gauge theories (I personally know little about this).

6.) Appropriate links to other Wikipedia articles

Alright. Well, I'll be back soon to add some stuff myself. Josh 22:33, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A few thoughts

On (1) -- is a brief discussion of the central charge appropriate here? It seems like you would first want to explain what "critical," means, and then the funny way in which "non-critical" is used.

Perhaps it's appropriate to split your proposal onto two pages, one on non-critical strings and one on matrix-models?

Yes, I think it's worth briefly mentioning the Weyl anomaly and that central charges should vanish etc. As far as splitting the page, that may be appropriate if content starts to accumulate Joshua Davis 22:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect

I thought the title should be Non-critical string theory so I created an article of that name and redirected this over there.Joshua Davis 21:15, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

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