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When does topological recursion applied to a family of spectral curves commute with taking limits? This problem is subtle, especially when the ramification structure of the spectral curve changes at the limit point. We provide sufficient…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Gaëtan Borot , Vincent Bouchard , Nitin Kumar Chidambaram , Reinier Kramer , Sergey Shadrin

We introduce a new formulation of the so-called topological recursion, that is defined globally on a compact Riemann surface. We prove that it is equivalent to the generalized recursion for spectral curves with arbitrary ramification. Using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Vincent Bouchard , Bertrand Eynard

We study the quasiclassical expansion associated with a complex curve. In a more specific context this is the 1/N expansion in U(N)-invariant matrix integrals. We compare two approaches, the CFT approach and the topological recursion, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Ivan Kostov , Nicolas Orantin

This paper generalizes recent advances on quadratic manifold (QM) dimensionality reduction by developing kernel methods-based nonlinear-augmentation dimensionality reduction. QMs, and more generally feature map-based nonlinear corrections,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alejandro N. Diaz , Jacob T. Needels , Irina K. Tezaur , Patrick J. Blonigan

We show that a topological quantum computer based on the evaluation of a Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT invariant of knots can always be arranged so that the knot diagrams with which one computes are diagrams of hyperbolic knots. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Eric Samperton

For any (possibly singular) hyperelliptic curve, we give the definition of a hyperelliptic refined spectral curve and the hyperelliptic refined topological recursion, generalising the formulation for a special class of genus-zero curves by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Kento Osuga

We prove, in a purely combinatorial way, the spectral curve topological recursion for the problem of enumeration of bi-colored maps, which are dual objects to dessins d'enfant. Furthermore, we give a proof of the quantum spectral curve…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 P. Dunin-Barkowski , N. Orantin , A. Popolitov , S. Shadrin

We study the constant contributions to the free energies obtained through the topological recursion applied to the complex curves mirror to toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. We show that the recursion reproduces precisely the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-23 Vincent Bouchard , Piotr Sułkowski

Using the duality between Wilson loop expectation values of SU(N) Chern-Simons theory on $S^3$ and topological open-string amplitudes on the local mirror of the resolved conifold, we study knots on $S^3$ and their invariants encoded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Jie Gu , Hans Jockers , Albrecht Klemm , Masoud Soroush

We study topological recursion on the irregular spectral curve $xy^2-xy+1=0$, which produces a weighted count of dessins d'enfant. This analysis is then applied to topological recursion on the spectral curve $xy^2=1$, which takes the place…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Norman Do , Paul Norbury

For a given spectral curve, we construct a family of symplectic dual spectral curves for which we prove an explicit formula expressing the $n$-point functions produced by the topological recursion on these curves via the $n$-point functions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Alexander Alexandrov , Boris Bychkov , Petr Dunin-Barkowski , Maxim Kazarian , Sergey Shadrin

The Witten-Kontsevich theorem states that a certain generating function for intersection numbers on the moduli space of stable curves is a tau-function for the KdV integrable hierarchy. This generating function can be recovered via the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Norman Do , Paul Norbury

We prove that formal WKB solutions of Schr\"odinger equations on Riemann surfaces are resurgent. Specifically, they are Borel summable in almost all directions and their Borel transforms admit endless analytic continuation away from a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Nikita Nikolaev

We generalize the topological recursion of Eynard-Orantin (2007) to the family of spectral curves of Hitchin fibrations. A spectral curve in the topological recursion, which is defined to be a complex plane curve, is replaced with a generic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Olivia Dumitrescu , Motohico Mulase

To any solution of a linear system of differential equations, we associate a kernel, correlators satisfying a set of loop equations, and in presence of isomonodromic parameters, a Tau function. We then study their semiclassical expansion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Michel Bergère , Gaëtan Borot , Bertrand Eynard

This review is an extended version of the Seoul ICM 2014 proceedings.It is a short overview of the "topological recursion", a relation appearing in the asymptotic expansion of many integrable systems and in enumerative problems. We recall…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 B. Eynard

This article consists of two parts. In Part 1, we present a formulation of two-dimensional topological quantum field theories in terms of a functor from a category of Ribbon graphs to the endofuntor category of a monoidal category. The key…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Olivia Dumitrescu , Motohico Mulase

Computing topological invariants of 3-manifolds is generally intractable, yet specialized algebraic structures can enable efficient algorithms. For Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (WRT) invariants of torus bundles, we exploit the non-commutative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Nelson Abdiel Colón Vargas , Carlos Ortiz Marrero

In this work, we analyze perturbative expansions of the quantum metric tensor (QMT) in anharmonic oscillators, focusing on quartic, sextic, and $d$-dimensional models. Using high-order perturbation theory, we show that the divergent QMT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Marcos J. Hernández , Bogar Díaz , J. David Vergara

Scattering amplitudes for colored theories have recently been formulated in a new way, in terms of curves on surfaces. In this note we describe a canonical set of functions we call surface functions, associated to all orders in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Hadleigh Frost , Giulio Salvatori