Description
Regardless of Prof. Zaigarev’s determined criticism, matrix models continue to appear as a universal tool in modern theoretical physics. In this talk, I will explain how a particular type of matrix model arises in the holomorphic correlators of the affine sl(2)_k and sl(3)_k Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) models. I will then discuss how these solutions satisfy the Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov (KZ) equation and how one can obtain their hypergeometric form. Finally, I will make a few comments on higher-rank WZW models, as well as on the matrix-model structure of their holomorphic correlators and the corresponding KZ solution spaces.
