Shifted Witten classes and topological recursion

DOI10.1090/TRAN/9046zbMATH Open1530.14051arXiv2203.16523MaRDI QIDQ6138026FDOQ6138026

Authors: Séverin Charbonnier, Nitin K. Chidambaram, Elba Garcia-Failde, Alessandro Giacchetto 

Publication date: 16 January 2024

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Witten $r$-spin class defines a non-semisimple cohomological field theory. Pandharipande, Pixton and Zvonkine studied two special shifts of the Witten class along two semisimple directions of the associated Dubrovin--Frobenius manifold using the Givental--Teleman reconstruction theorem. We show that the $R$-matrix and the translation of these two specific shifts can be constructed from the solutions of two differential equations that generalise the classical Airy differential equation. Using this, we prove that the descendant intersection theory of the shifted Witten classes satisfies topological recursion on two $1$-parameter families of spectral curves. By taking the limit as the parameter goes to zero for these families of spectral curves, we prove that the descendant intersection theory of the Witten $r$-spin class can be computed by topological recursion on the $r$-Airy spectral curve. We finally show that this proof suffices to deduce Witten's $r$-spin conjecture, already proved by Faber, Shadrin and Zvonkine, which claims that the generating series of $r$-spin intersection numbers is the tau function of the $r$-KdV hierarchy that satisfies the string equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16523

zbMATH Keywords

moduli space of curvestopological recursion\(W\)-constraints\(r\)-KdVWitten \(r\)-spin class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05)

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