Modular functors, cohomological field theories, and topological recursion

DOI10.1090/PSPUM/100/01772MaRDI QIDQ5136629zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. E. Andersen, Nicolas Orantin, Gaëtan Borot

Publication date 27 November 2020

Published in Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01387

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42)

Abstract: Given a topological modular functor $mathcalV$ in the sense of Walker cite{Walker}, we construct vector bundles over $$, whose Chern classes define semi-simple cohomological field theories. This construction depends on a determination of the logarithm of the eigenvalues of the Dehn twist and central element actions. We show that the intersection of the Chern class with the $psi$-classes in $$ is computed by the topological recursion of cite{EOFg}, for a local spectral curve that we describe. In particular, we show how the Verlinde formula for the dimensions $D_{veclambda}(mathbf{Sigma}_{g,n})=dimmathcal{V}_{veclambda}(mathbf{Sigma}_{g,n})$ is retrieved from the topological recursion. We analyze the consequences of our result on two examples: modular functors associated to a finite group $G$ (for which $D_{veclambda}(mathbf{Sigma}_{g,n})$ enumerates certain $G$-principle bundles over a genus $g$ surface with $n$ boundary conditions specified by $veclambda$), and the modular functor obtained from Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theory associated to a simple, simply-connected Lie group $G$ (for which $mathcal{V}_{veclambda}(mathbf{Sigma}_{g,n})$ is the Verlinde bundle).

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