Cut-and-join equation for monotone Hurwitz numbers revisited

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Abstract: We give a new proof of the cut-and-join equation for the monotone Hurwitz numbers, derived first by Goulden, Guay-Paquet, and Novak. Our proof in particular uses a combinatorial technique developed by Han. The main interest in this particular equation is its close relation to the quadratic loop equation in the theory of spectral curve topological recursion, and we recall this motivation giving a new proof of the topological recursion for monotone Hurwitz numbers, obtained first by Do, Dyer, and Mathews.


In the paper under review, the authors provide a \textit{new proof} of the cut and join equation for the monotone Hurwitz numbers. For a partition $\mu \vdash d$ we denote by $\ell(\mu)$ its length and by $\mu_{1} \geq ... \geq \mu_{\ell(\mu)}$ its parts. We associate to $\mu$ a Young diagram that we denote also by $\mu$, whose boxes have row coordinates from $1$ to $\ell(\mu)$ and the column coordinates in the ith row from $1$ to $\mu_{i}$. By $|\mu|$ we denote the number of boxes, that is $|\mu| := d$. A disconnected monotone Hurwitz number depends on a partition $\mu \vdash d$ of a positive integer $d$ (the degree) and on a genus $g - \mathbb{Z}$ that can be, potentially, negative, but the parameter $b = 2g-2+d+\ell(\mu)$ must be non-negative. This is given by \[ H^{\bullet}_{g, \mu} = \sum_{\lambda \vdash d} \frac{ \text{dim} \lambda}{d!} \frac{\chi_{\lambda}(\mu)}{\prod_{i=1}^{\ell(\mu)} \mu_{i}}h_{2g-2+d+\ell(\mu)}(cr_{1}^{\lambda}, ..., cr_{d}^{\lambda}). \] Here $h_{2g-2+d+ \ell(\mu)} = h_{b}$ is the full homogeneous symmetric function of its variables of degree $b = 2g - 2 + d + \ell(\mu)$, $cr^{\lambda}$ is the vector of contents of the standard Young tableau associated to the diagram $\lambda$ -- if $c_i$ and $r_i$ are the column and the row indices of the box $i$, then $cr^{\lambda}_{i} := c_i - r_i$, $\text{dim} \, \lambda$ is the dimension of the representation $\lambda$, and by $\chi_{\lambda}(\mu)$ one denotes the character of the representation $\lambda$ evaluated at the conjugacy class of cycle type $\mu$. \par The generating function for the disconnected monotone Hurwitz numbers is defined as \[ \mathcal{Z}(s, t, \mathbf{p}) = \sum_{d\geq 1, \, \mu \, \vdash d, \, b\geq 0, \, g} \frac{s^{d}}{d!} t^{b} H^{\bullet}_{g,\mu} p_{\mu_{1}} \cdot\cdot\cdot p_{\mu_{\ell(\mu)}}, \] where $g: = \frac{b-d-\ell(\mu)}{2} \in \mathbb{Z}$. \par Main Result (Cut and join equation). \[ \frac{1}{2t} \bigg[s \frac{\partial}{\partial s} - sp_{1} \bigg] \mathcal{Z} = \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i,j=1}^{\infty} \bigg[(i+j)p_{i}p_{j} \frac{\partial}{\partial p_{i+j}} + ijp_{i+j} \frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial p_{i} \partial p_{j}}\bigg] \mathcal{Z}. \]











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