Solution of matrix Riemann-Hilbert problems with quasi-permutation monodromy matrices (Q1889447)

This paper is a continuation of the author's paper [Harnad, John (ed.) et al., CRM Proc. Lect. Notes. 31, 49--59 (2002; Zbl 1007.32013)] where a family of Riemann-Hilbert problems in arbitrary matrix dimension with quasi-permutation monodromy was solved in terms of Szegö kernel on compact Riemann surfaces, but this family did not contain enough parameters to cover the whole set of quasi-permutation monodromy groups. Also in that paper the Miwa-Jimbo tau-function was not computed for dimension higher than 2. The paper under review is devoted to the complete solution of Riemann-Hilbert problems with arbitrary irreducible quasi-permutation monodromy representation in any matrix dimension outside of the divisor of zeros of the corresponding tau-function in the space of monodromy data. For that purpose an appropriate generalization of Szegö kernel on the associated Riemann surface is used. This permits to obtain a new class of solutions of the Schlesinger system. The author computes the Jimbo-Miwa tau-function up to a factor which depends only on positions of singularities of the RH problem and does not depend on the matrix elements of monodromy matrices; in some cases this factor is found explicitly. From the point of view of the theory of Frobenius manifolds this factor is equal to the isomonodromic tau-function of the Frobenius manifolds associated to Hurwitz spaces. It is pointed that the divisor of zeros of the tau-function corresponding to the RH problem in the space of monodromy data can be characterized in terms of the theta-divisor on the Jacobi manifold on the Riemann surface. The main technical tools are kernel functions on Riemann surfaces, Fay identities and deformation theory of Riemann surfaces. At last, the domains of possible application of the results are scetched: theory of stationary axially symmetric Einstein-Maxwell systems (vacuum Einstein equations), classification of \(G\)-invariant self-dual Einstein manifolds, theory of Frobenius manifolds and random matrices.