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Super volumes and KdV tau functions

Algebraic Geometry 2024-12-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli space of curves are deeply related to the Kontsevich-Witten KdV tau function. They possess a Virasoro symmetry which comes out of recursion relations between the volumes due to Mirzakhani. Similarly, the super Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli space of super curves with Neveu-Schwarz punctures are related to the Br\'ezin-Gross-Witten (BGW) tau function of the KdV hierarchy and satisfy a recursion due to Stanford and Witten, analogous to Mirzakhani's recursion. In this paper we prove that by also allowing Ramond punctures, the super Weil-Petersson volumes are related to the generalised BGW KdV tau function, which is a one parameter deformation of the BGW tau function. This allows us to prove that these new super volumes also satisfy the Stanford-Witten recursion.

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@article{arxiv.2412.17272,
  title  = {Super volumes and KdV tau functions},
  author = {Alexander Alexandrov and Paul Norbury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17272},
  year   = {2024}
}

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26 pages

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