Exact Correlators of Two-Matrix Models

Abstract

We compute exact solutions of two--matrix models, i.e. detailed genus by genus expressions for the correlation functions of these theories, calculated without any approximation. We distinguish between two types of models, the unconstrained and the constrained ones. Unconstrained two--matrix models represent perturbations of $c=1$ string theory, while the constrained ones correspond to topological field theories coupled to topological gravity. Among the latter we treat in particular detail the ones based on the KdV and on the Boussinesq hierarchies.