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We continue our study of matrix models of dually weighted graphs. Among the attractive features of these models is the possibility to interpolate between ensembles of regular and random two-dimensional lattices, relevant for the study of the crossover from two-dimensional flat space to two-dimensional quantum gravity. We further develop the formalism of largeN character expansions. In particular, a general method for determining the largeN limit of a character is derived. This method, aside from being potentially useful for a far greater class of problems, allows us to exactly solve the matrix models of dually weighted graphs, reducing them to a well-posed Riemann-Hilbert problem. The power of the method is illustrated by explicitly solving a new model in which only positive curvature defects are permitted on the surface, an arbitrary amount of negative curvature being introduced at a single insertion.
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Communicated by R.H. Dijkgraaf
In memoriam Claude Itzykson
This work is supported by funds provided by the European Community, Human Capital and Mobility Programme.
Unité Propre du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, associée à l'École Normale Supérieure et à l'Université de Paris-Sud.
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Kazakov, V.A., Staudacher, M. & Wynter, T. Almost flat planar diagrams. Commun.Math. Phys. 179, 235–256 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02103721
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