A proof of loop equations in 2d topological gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2021)107zbMATH Open1476.83120arXiv2106.05643MaRDI QIDQ825722FDOQ825722

Kazumi Okuyama, Kazuhiro Sakai

Publication date: 17 December 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study multi-boundary correlators in 2d Witten-Kontsevich topological gravity. We present a proof of the loop equations obeyed by the correlators. While the loop equations were derived a long time ago, our proof is fully explicit in the presence of general couplings $t_k$. We clarify all the details, in particular the treatment of the genus zero part of the one-boundary correlator. The loop equations are verified by several new examples, including the correlators of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity in the genus expansion and the exact correlators in the Airy case. We also discuss the free boson/fermion representation of the correlators and compare it with the formulation of Marolf and Maxfield and the string field theory of Ishibashi and Kawai. We find similarities but also some differences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05643

zbMATH Keywords

integrable hierarchiesmatrix models2d gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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