Talk:Matrix theory (physics)

This article was previously a redirect to matrix string theory. These topics are NOT the same and should remain as separate articles. Polytope24 (talk) 04:34, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Can we get an update from someone knowledgeable?
This article is disappointingly out-of-date. It essentially contains no information past the original postulation of the models, and all cited references are from between 1994-1999. Can we get some updated information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1010:B003:646:3837:3B0E:88DC:342 (talk) 21:39, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Ideas for improvement
I feel that this page can be significantly improved. Wikipedia already has a page about Euclidean matrix integrals, i.e. random matrix theory. That page could probably be improved too to connect more with the physics literature, but let me not discuss that. The Hamiltonian counterpart is what we call these days matrix quantum mechanics, either gauged or ungauged. There's a whole physics literature on this subject, and there's a soup of related models (often related to string theory), e.g. BFSS, BMN, BFSS etc. I feel that this article should describe the general point of view (matrix quantum mechanics of bosonic and/or fermionic degrees of freedom) first, and then discuss some specific models. Finally there could be a discussion of techniques that are used: analytic methods in the large-N limit, Monte Carlo, even deep learning. Any feedback? Am I missing some existing Wikipedia pages? MatthHo (talk) 15:42, 6 December 2022 (UTC)