Matrix models and a proof of the open analog of Witten's conjecture

DOI10.1007/S00220-017-2899-5MaRDI QIDQ2362809zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. Buryak, Ran J. Tessler

Publication date 14 July 2017

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07888

zbMATH Keywords

Burgers-KdV hierarchyKontsevich's combinatorial formulaVirasoro equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

Abstract: In a recent work, R. Pandharipande, J. P. Solomon and the second author have initiated a study of the intersection theory on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with boundary. They conjectured that the generating series of the intersection numbers satisfies the open KdV equations. In this paper we prove this conjecture. Our proof goes through a matrix model and is based on a Kontsevich type combinatorial formula for the intersection numbers that was found by the second author.

Review text

The authors study the intersection theory on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with boundary. The conjecture that the generating series of the intersection numbers satisfies the open KdV equations is proved. This proof goes through a matrix model and is based on a Kontsevich type combinatorial formula for the intersection number.

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