A group action on Losev-Manin cohomological field theories (Q2391371): Difference between revisions

Frobenius manifolds are proved to have lots of applications in enumerative geometry, singularity theory, integrable hierarchies, and string theory. Givental constructed a group action on the space of Frobenius manifolds allowing to transfer known results from a Frobenius manifold to another in the same orbit. Losev proposed a reconstruction of a part of the structure of a Frobenius manifold from a germ of a pencil of flat connections. It involves a commutativity equation reflecting the topology of the Losev-Manin compactification of the moduli space of genus 0 curves. This is analogous to the famous WDVV equation arising from the topology of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of genus 0 curves. The paper under review studies an analog of Givental's group action on the space of solutions of the commutativity equation. Four equivalent formulations of this group action are presented: {\parindent=0.7cm\begin{itemize}\item[i)] in terms of the cohomology classes on Losev-Manin moduli spaces, \item[ii)] in terms of differential operators acting on formal matrix Gromov-Witten potential, \item[iii)] in terms of a linear algebraic interpretation of the descendant of the commutativity equation, \item[iv)] in terms of \(\tau\)-functions of multi-component Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchies. \end{itemize}} It is shown that the last formulation is equivalent to the Losev-Polyubin classification of solutions of the commutativity equation obtained via dressing transformation technique.