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Double ramification cycles and quantum integrable systems

Mathematical Physics 2016-04-26 v2 Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we define a quantization of the Double Ramification Hierarchies of [Bur15b] and [BR14], using intersection numbers of the double ramification cycle, the full Chern class of the Hodge bundle and psi-classes with a given cohomological field theory. We provide effective recursion formulae which determine the full quantum hierarchy starting from just one Hamiltonian, the one associated with the first descendant of the unit of the cohomological field theory only. We study various examples which provide, in very explicit form, new (1+1)(1+1)-dimensional integrable quantum field theories whose classical limits are well-known integrable hierarchies such as KdV, Intermediate Long Wave, Extended Toda, etc. Finally we prove polynomiality in the ramification multiplicities of the integral of any tautological class over the double ramification cycle.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1503.03687,
  title  = {Double ramification cycles and quantum integrable systems},
  author = {A. Buryak and P. Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03687},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Revised version, to be published in Letters in Mathematical Physics, 21 pages

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