John Wheater

Abstract:

We discuss some possible relationships in gauge theories, string theory and M theory in the light of some recent results obtained in gauge invariant supersymmetric quantum mechanics. In particular this reveals a new relationship between the gauge group E_8 and 11-dimensional space.

Abstract:

We show how to determine the unknown functions arising when the peeling decomposition is applied to multi-critical matter coupled to two-dimensional quantum gravity and compute the loop-loop correlation functions. The results that $\eta=2+2/(2K-3)$ and $\nu=1-3/2K$ agree with the slicing decomposition, and satisfy Fisher scaling.