Shifted Witten classes and topological recursion

DOI10.1090/TRAN/9046MaRDI QIDQ6138026zbMATHFDO

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)

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)

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.

Recommendations

• Intersection numbers with Witten's top Chern class
• Witten's conjecture and recursions for \(\kappa\) classes
• Open \(r\)-spin theory. II: The analogue of Witten's conjecture for \(r\)-spin disks
• Tautological relations via 𝑟-spin structures
• Moduli spaces of higher spin curves and integrable hierarchies

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5548155 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 65525 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 554851 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2020253 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1751354 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2145099 (Why is no real title available?)
• A curious identity that implies Faber's conjecture
• A generalized topological recursion for arbitrary ramification
• A matrix integral solution to two-dimensional \(W_ p\)-gravity
• A new cohomology class on the moduli space of curves
• Algebraic construction of Witten's top Chern class
• Dubrovin's superpotential as a global spectral curve
• Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry
• Half-spin tautological relations and Faber's proportionalities of kappa classes
• Identification of the Givental formula with the spectral curve topological recursion procedure
• Intersection theory on the moduli space of curves and the matrix Airy function
• Invariants of algebraic curves and topological expansion
• Invariants of spectral curves and intersection theory of moduli spaces of complex curves
• Primary invariants of Hurwitz Frobenius manifolds
• Reconstructing WKB from topological recursion
• Relations on \overline{ℳ}_{ℊ,𝓃} via 3-spin structures
• Tautological relations and the \(r\)-spin Witten conjecture
• Tautological relations via 𝑟-spin structures
• The Witten top Chern class via 𝐾-theory
• The hypergeometric functions of the Faber-Zagier and Pixton relations
• The structure of 2D semi-simple field theories
• The tautological ring of \(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}\) via Pandharipande-Pixton-Zvonkine \(r\)-spin relations
• Think globally, compute locally
• Weil-Petersson volumes and intersection theory on the moduli space of curves
• \(\mathcal{W}\)-algebra constraints and topological recursion for \({A}_N\)-singularity (with an appendix by Danilo Lewanski)

Cited in

(1)

• Real and logarithmic enumerative geometry. Abstracts from the workshop held May 5--10, 2024

This page was built for publication: Shifted Witten classes and topological recursion

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6138026)