The hypergeometric functions of the Faber-Zagier and Pixton relations

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2015.V11.N4.A3MaRDI QIDQ525684zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. Buryak, Rahul Pandharipande, Felix Janda

Publication date 5 May 2017

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05150

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15) Other hypergeometric functions and integrals in several variables (33C70)

Abstract: The relations in the tautological ring of the moduli space M_g of nonsingular curves conjectured by Faber-Zagier in 2000 and extended to the moduli space of stable pointed curves by Pixton in 2012 are based upon two hypergeometric series A and B. The question of the geometric origins of these series has been solved in at least two ways (via the Frobenius structures associated to 3-spin curves and to CP1). The series A and B also appear in the study of descendent integration on the moduli spaces of open and closed curves. We survey here the various occurrences of A and B starting from their appearance in the asymptotic expansion of the Airy function (calculated by Stokes in the 19th century). Several open questions are proposed.

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