Multicritical matrix-vector models of quantum orbifold geometry

Abstract

We construct bosonic and fermionic matrix-vector models which describe orbifolded string worldsheets at a limit in which the dimension of the vector space and the matrix order are taken to infinity. We evaluate tree-level one-loop or multiloop amplitudes of these string worldsheets by means of Schwinger-Dyson equations and derive their expressions at the multicritical points. Some of these amplitudes resemble or are closely related to those of ordinary multicritical Hermitian matrix models by a constant factor, whereas some differ significantly.