Double ramification cycles and quantum integrable systems (Q259999): Difference between revisions

After introducing the relevant deformation quantization of the standard hydrodynamic Poisson bracket of dispersionless Dubrovin-Zhang (DZ) hierarchies and a study of its propagator [\textit{B. A. Dubrovin} and \textit{Y. Zhang}, ``Normal forms of hierarchies of integrable PDEs, Frobenius manifolds and Gromov-Witten invariants'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:math/0108160}], the authors define the quantum double ramification (qDR) hierarchy using intersection numbers of a given a cohomological field theory (CohFT) with the double ramification cycle and the Hodge and psi classes and prove commutativity of the (quantum) flows. The authors define a quantization of the double ramification hierarchies of [Commun. Math. Phys. 336, No. 3, 1085--1107 (2015; Zbl 1329.14103); Commun. Math. Phys. 342, No. 2, 533--568 (2016; Zbl 1343.37062)], using intersection numbers of the double ramification cycle, the full Chern class of the Hodge bundle and psi-classes with a given cohomological field theory. They provide effective recursion formulae which determine the full quantum hierarchy starting from just one Hamiltonian, the one associated with the first descendant of the unit of the cohomological field theory only. They study various examples which provide, in very explicit form, new \((1+1)\)-dimensional integrable quantum field theories whose classical limits are well-known integrable hierarchies such as KdV, Intermediate Long Wave, Extended Toda, etc. Finally they prove polynomiality in the ramification multiplicities of the integral of any tautological class over the double ramification cycle.