Harer-Zagier formula via Fock space

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Authors Danilo Lewanski

Publication date 31 October 2019

Published in Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11437

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological properties in algebraic geometry (14F45) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: The goal of this note is to provide a very short proof of Harer-Zagier formula for the number of ways of obtaining a genus g Riemann surface by identifying in pairs the sides of a (2d)-gon, using semi-infinite wedge formalism operators.

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