Topological recursion for symplectic volumes of moduli spaces of curves (Q1940062)

The authors develop a recursion formula for calculating the symplectic volume of the moduli space of the set \(\mathcal M_{g,n}\) of all smooth algebraic curves of genus \(g\) that have \(n\) distinguished labeled points. It is proved that this recursion formula is equivalent to the DVV equation (Virasoro constraint) for \(\psi\)-class intersections on the compactification \(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}\) and also to the Eynard-Orantin recursion for the spectral curve \(x=\frac{1}{2}y^2\).