Identification of the Givental formula with the spectral curve topological recursion procedure (Q2016047)

At the beginning of the 21st century A. Givental has found a recursive procedure reconstructing the full potential of the cohomological field theory from its genus zero data. Several years later a very general recursive reconstruction theory was proposed originating from the matrix models. It is now known as the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin recursion or topological recursion. Various series of numbers that were known to have ``classical'' recursive relations (like Hurwitz numbers and Hodge integrals) were put in the framework of Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin theory too. However it was not clear at all if the reconstruction of Givental agrees with the reconstruction of the topological recursion. In this article the authors prove that the reconstruction of Givental is an example of the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin recursion. Using Givental's theory the authors prove the conjecture of Norbury and Scott about the topological recursion for the Gromov-Witten theory of \(\mathbb CP^1\).