Irregular conformal blocks and connection formulae for Painlevé V functions

DOI10.1063/1.5031841MaRDI QIDQ4687688zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Julien Roussillon, O. Lisovyy, Hajime Nagoya

Publication date 12 October 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08344

zbMATH Keywords

Verma moduleYoung diagramsmonodromyNekrasov functionsVirasoro algebraLax pairtau functionWhittaker moduleFredholm determinantWhittaker functionsWhittaker vectorsconnection formulasToeplitz determinantconnection problemBarnes \(G\)-functionStokes matricesconnection constantsconformal field theory (CFT)Jimbo-Miwa-Ueno tau functionStokes sectorsVirasoro generatorsquantum dilogarithmsRiemann-Hilbert problem (RHP)Virasoro conformal blocksPainlevé transcendentsWeyl symmetry group4D supersymmetric gauge theoryAlday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa (AGT) relationChiral vertex operatorirregular conformal blocksPonsot-Teschner Formularegular conformal blocksSzegő constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Singularities, monodromy and local behavior of solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain, normal forms (34M35) Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55) Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) Monodromy on manifolds (58K10) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Painlevé-type functions (33E17) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05) Asymptotics and summation methods for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M30) Stokes phenomena and connection problems (linear and nonlinear) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M40) Inverse problems (Riemann-Hilbert, inverse differential Galois, etc.) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M50) Monodromy; relations with differential equations and (D)-modules (complex-analytic aspects) (32S40) Fredholm structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B15)

Abstract: We prove a Fredholm determinant and short-distance series representation of the Painlev'e V tau function $au(t)$ associated to generic monodromy data. Using a relation of $au(t)$ to two different types of irregular $c=1$ Virasoro conformal blocks and the confluence from Painlev'e VI equation, connection formulas between the parameters of asymptotic expansions at $0$ and $iinfty$ are conjectured. Explicit evaluations of the connection constants relating the tau function asymptotics as $to0,+infty,iinfty$ are obtained. We also show that irregular conformal blocks of rank 1, for arbitrary central charge, are obtained as confluent limits of the regular conformal blocks.

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