The Kontsevich constants for the volume of the moduli of curves and topological recursion

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2011.V5.N3.A3zbMATH1259.14028MaRDI QIDQ433002FDOQ433002

Authors Kevin M. Chapman, Motohico Mulase, Brad Safnuk

Publication date 13 July 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2055

zbMATH Keywords

moduli of curvestopological recursionribbon graphsKontsevich constantsymplectic and Euclidean volume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: We give an Eynard-Orantin type topological recursion formula for the canonical Euclidean volume of the combinatorial moduli space of pointed smooth algebraic curves. The recursion comes from the edge removal operation on the space of ribbon graphs. As an application we obtain a new proof of the Kontsevich constants for the ratio of the Euclidean and the symplectic volumes of the moduli space of curves.

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