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Topological recursion with hard edges

Algebraic Geometry 2018-12-12 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove a Givental type decomposition for partition functions that arise out of topological recursion applied to spectral curves. Copies of the Konstevich-Witten KdV tau function arise out of regular spectral curves and copies of the Brezin-Gross-Witten KdV tau function arise out of irregular spectral curves. We present the example of this decomposition for the matrix model with two hard edges and spectral curve (x24)y2=1(x^2-4)y^2=1

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@article{arxiv.1702.08631,
  title  = {Topological recursion with hard edges},
  author = {Leonid Chekhov and Paul Norbury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08631},
  year   = {2018}
}

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21 pages, latex figures

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