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Dubrovin duality for open Hurwitz flat F-manifolds

Mathematical Physics 2025-12-10 v1 Differential Geometry math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We prove that the Dubrovin dual of a Hurwitz Frobenius manifold extends naturally to an F-manifold with compatible flat connection on the universal curve, in the sense of the open WDVV equations. A similar result is proven for the Frobenius manifold itself in arXiv:2503.09258 . This equips the universal curve with two F-manifolds with compatible flat structure, and we study their duality. We show that they combine into a bi-flat F-manifold. Conditions on open WDVV solutions imposed in previous work are retrieved in this setting, thus providing them with a geometrical meaning. Finally, explicit examples are computed. For Saito Frobenius manifolds of types AA and DD, the extended prepotentials coincide with open WDVV solutions computed independently, whereas even the existence of the solution in type EE had not been previously discussed. On the other hand, new non-homogeneous solutions are constructed by duality.

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@article{arxiv.2512.08795,
  title  = {Dubrovin duality for open Hurwitz flat F-manifolds},
  author = {Alessandro Proserpio and Ian A. B. Strachan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08795},
  year   = {2025}
}