nLab Hikaru Kawai

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Selected writings

On the large N limit and first hints of holographic QCD and matrix models:

• Tohru Eguchi, Hikaru Kawai, Reduction of Dynamical Degrees of Freedom in the Large-$N$ Gauge Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1063 (1982) (spire:176459, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1063)

Introducing the KLT relations:

• Hikaru Kawai, D. C. Lewellen, S. H. H. Tye, A Relation Between Tree Amplitudes of Closed and Open Strings, Nucl. Phys. B269 (1986) 1-23 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(86)90362-7)

On the GSO projection and type 0 string theory:

• Hikaru Kawai, D. C. Lewellen, S. H. H. Tye: Classification of Closed Fermionic String Models, Phys. Rev. D 34 (1986) 3794 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3794]

Introducing the IKKT matrix model:

• Noboyuki Ishibashi, Hikaru Kawai, Y. Kitazawa, A. Tsuchiya, A Large-$N$ Reduced Model as Superstring, Nucl. Phys. B498 (1997) 467-491 (arXiv:hep-th/9612115, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00290-3)

• H. Aoki, S. Iso, Hikaru Kawai, Y. Kitazawa, T. Tada, A. Tsuchiya, IIB Matrix Model, Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.134:47-83,1999 (arXiv:hep-th/9908038)

and relating it to Yang-Mills theory:

• H. Aoki, Noboyuki Ishibashi, S. Iso, Hikaru Kawai, Y. Kitazawa, T. Tada, Noncommutative Yang-Mills in IIB Matrix Model, Nucl.Phys. B565 (2000) 176-192 (arXiv:hep-th/9908141)

and to closed string field theory:

• M. Fukuma, Hikaru Kawai, Y. Kitazawa, A. Tsuchiya, String Field Theory from IIB Matrix Model, Nucl.Phys.B510:158-174,1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9705128)

and to general relativity:

• Pei-Ming Ho, Hikaru Kawai, Harold C. Steinacker: General Relativity in IIB Matrix Model [arXiv:2509.06646]

On volume-preserving diffeomorphisms in bosonic string and brane sigma models:

• Pei-Ming Ho, Hikaru Kawai, Henry Liao: General Actions of Extended Objects and Volume-Preserving Diffeomorphism [arXiv:2602.23443]

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