Higher Airy structures, W algebras and topological recursion

DOI10.1090/MEMO/1476arXiv1812.08738MaRDI QIDQ6504175FDOQ6504175

Authors: Gaëtan Borot, Vincent Bouchard, Nitin K. Chidambaram, Thomas Creutzig, Dmitry Noshchenko

Abstract: We define higher quantum Airy structures as generalizations of the Kontsevich-Soibelman quantum Airy structures by allowing differential operators of arbitrary order (instead of only quadratic). We construct many classes of examples of higher quantum Airy structures as modules of

m a t h c a l W (m a t h f r a k g)

algebras at self-dual level, with

m a t h f r a k g = m a t h f r a k {g l}_{N + 1}

,

m a t h f r a k {s o}_{2 N}

or

m a t h f r a k e_{N}

. We discuss their enumerative geometric meaning in the context of (open and closed) intersection theory of the moduli space of curves and its variants. Some of these

m a t h c a l W

constraints have already appeared in the literature, but we find many new ones. For

m a t h f r a k {g l}_{N + 1}

our result hinges on the description of previously unnoticed Lie subalgebras of the algebra of modes. As a consequence, we obtain a simple characterization of the spectral curves (with arbitrary ramification) for which the Bouchard-Eynard topological recursion gives symmetric

o m e g a_{g, n}

s and is thus well defined. For all such cases, we show that the topological recursion is equivalent to

m a t h c a l W (m a t h f r a k g l)

constraints realized as higher quantum Airy structures, and obtain a Givental-like decomposition for the corresponding partition functions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics (51P05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10)

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