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These lecture notes are partly based on the review [1] on 2-D quantum gravity and random matrix models. The subdivision into two parts corresponds to two very different approaches to the quantization of 2-D gravity, on the one hand through a discretization of the problem (Part A), on the other hand through a mathematical formulation thereof, as intersection theory on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces (Part B).
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Francesco, P.D. (1999). 2-D Quantum and Topological Gravities, Matrix Models, and Integrable Differential Systems. In: Conte, R. (eds) The Painlevé Property. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1532-5_5
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