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Small M-theories incorporate various models representing a unified family in the same way that the M-theory incorporates a variety of superstring models. We consider this idea applied to the family of eigenvalue matrix models: their M-theory unifies various branches of the Hermitian matrix model (including the Dijkgraaf-Vafa partition functions) with the Kontsevich τ-function. Moreover, the corresponding duality relations are reminiscent of instanton and meron decompositions, familiar from the Yang-Mills theory.
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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 150, No. 2, pp. 179–192, February, 2007.
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Alexandrov, A.S., Mironov, A.D. & Morozov, A.Y. M-theory of matrix models. Theor Math Phys 150, 153–164 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-007-0011-6
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