Brezin-Gross-Witten tau function and isomonodromic deformations (Q2279201)

The generalized Brezin-Gross-Witten (gBGW) tau function $\tau(t;\nu )$ is a formal tau function of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) hierarchy; it depends on infinitely many ``times'' $t=(t_0,t_1,\ldots )$ which are the usual flows of the KdV hierarchy; the parameter $\nu \in \mathbb{Z}$ plays the role of an additional discrete time of the hierarchy. With respect to the $\nu$-dependence it is a tau function of the modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy. The case $\nu =0$ corresponds to the usual BGW tau function arising in the weak coupling phase of the BGW model. It falls within the family of generalized Kontsevich matrix integrals, about its algebro-geometric interpretation see [\textit{P. Norbury}, ``A new cohomology class on the moduli space of curves'', \url{arXiv:1712.03662}]. The authors prove that the gBGW tau function is the isomonodromic tau function of a $2\times 2$-isomonodromic system. Within this approach they derive effective formulae for the generating functions of the correlators in terms of simple generating series, the Virasoro constraints, and discuss the relation with the Painlevé XXXIV hierarchy.