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Publications and source records attributed to Eric D'Hoker.
The Type II Superstring amplitude to 1-loop order is given by an integral of $\vartheta$-functions over the moduli space of tori, which diverges for real momenta. We construct the analytic continuation which renders this amplitude well defined and finite, and we find the expected poles and cuts in the complex momentum plane.
We consider a string with uniform energy density and tension and with a number of pointlike masses attached at fixed interdistances. We evaluate the effective interaction forces between these masses induced by the quantum fluctuations of the string. For interdistances large compared to the thickness of the string and small compared to the total length, these forces are universal and attractive and fall off, for large distances as $1/r^3$ and for small distances as $1/r$. The attractive nature of these forces creates an instability under which masses added to the string tend to aggregate.
We generalize the Lax pair and Bäcklund transformations for Toda and N=1 super Toda equations to the case of arbitrary worldsheet background geometry. We use the fact that the Toda equations express constant curvature conditions, which arise naturally from flatness conditions equivalent to the W--gravity equations of motion.
We evaluate the three point function for arbitrary states in bosonic minimal models on the sphere coupled to quantum gravity in two dimensions. The validity of the formal continuation in the number of Liouville screening charge insertions is shown directly from the Liouville functional integral using semi-classical methods.
We compute the three point functions of Neveu--Schwarz primary fields of the minimal models on the sphere when coupled to supergravity in two dimensions. The results show that the three point correlation functions are determined by the scaling dimensions of the fields, as in the bosonic case.