Bi-Hamiltonian recursion, Liu-Pandharipande relations, and vanishing terms of the second Dubrovin-Zhang bracket (Q2129290)

The Gromov-Witten invariants satisfy many interesting properties that may be packaged in different ways. Among them are the string equation, the dilaton equation, and the WDVV equation. These three equations reflect relations in the cohomology of the moduli spaces of surfaces. Dubrovin-Frobenius manifolds provide one way to study solutions of the WDVV equations. These may be used to construct various completely integrable systems and hierarchies. This paper concentrates on the second Poisson bracket in the Dubrovin-Zhang hierarchy. The second section of the paper sets up a suitable framework to study bi-Hamiltonian systems, and the third section reviews cohomological field theory and the Dubrovin-Zhang hierarchy. The fourth section begins with a description of the second bracket and includes a proof of the bi-Hamiltonian recursion. The exposition and review at the beginning of the paper makes it much more readable. Once this has been given, the authors show that the bi-Hamiltonian recursion uniquely determines the deformed bracket. Then they provide a proof of the Dubrovin-Zhang structural theorem which is independent from the loop equation. Finally they discuss the Liu-Pandharipande relations before proving that all of the negative degree terms in the deformed bracket vanish.