Shifted Witten classes and topological recursion
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| author | Charbonnier, Séverin Chidambaram, Nitin Kumar Garcia-Failde, Elba Giacchetto, Alessandro |
| author_facet | Charbonnier, Séverin Chidambaram, Nitin Kumar Garcia-Failde, Elba Giacchetto, Alessandro |
| contents | 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. |
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| spellingShingle | Shifted Witten classes and topological recursion Charbonnier, Séverin Chidambaram, Nitin Kumar Garcia-Failde, Elba Giacchetto, Alessandro Algebraic Geometry Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs 14H10, 14H70, 81R10, 34E05 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. |
| title | Shifted Witten classes and topological recursion |
| topic | Algebraic Geometry Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs 14H10, 14H70, 81R10, 34E05 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16523 |