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We consider ramified coverings of P^1 with arbitrary ramification type over 0 and infinity and simple ramifications elsewhere and prove that the generating function for the numbers of such coverings is a tau-function for the Toda lattice…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrei Okounkov

We present a family of matrix models such that their partition functions are tau functions of the universal character (UC) hierarchy. This develops one of the topics of our previous paper arXiv:2410.14823. We found new matrix models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Chuanzhong Li , Andrei Mironov , Alexander Yu. Orlov

We present a family of solvable multi-matrix models associated with an arbitrary embedded graph $\Gamma$ with a single vertex. The graph with $n$ edges is equipped with $2n$ corner matrices. The partition function of each member of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 A. Yu. Orlov

We introduce and investigate a family of tau-functions of the 2D Toda hierarchy, which is a natural generalization of the hypergeometric family associated with Hurwitz numbers. For this family we prove a skew Schur function expansion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Alexander Alexandrov

Multiparametric families of hypergeometric $\tau$-functions of KP or Toda type serve as generating functions for weighted Hurwitz numbers, providing weighted enumerations of branched covers of the Riemann sphere. A graphical interpretation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 A. Alexandrov , G. Chapuy , B. Eynard , J. Harnad

We consider integrals of tau functions of Zakharov-Shabat systems whose higher times are related to the eigenvalues of products of random matrices. Apart of random matrices there is the set of $n$ pairs of given matrices which play the role…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-11-07 S. M. Natanzon , A. Yu. Orlov

Partition functions often become \tau-functions of integrable hierarchies, if they are considered dependent on infinite sets of parameters called time variables. The Hurwitz partition functions Z = \sum_R…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Alexandrov , A. Mironov , A. Morozov , S. Natanzon

We generalize the determinant representation of the KP $\tau$ functions to the case of the 2D Toda $\tau$ functions. The generating functions for the weighted Hurwitz numbers are a parametric family of 2D Toda $\tau$ functions; for which we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Xiang-Mao Ding , Xiang Li

We consider solvable matrix models. We generalize Harish-Chandra-Itzykson-Zuber and certain other integrals (Gross-Witten integral and integrals over complex matrices) using the notion of tau function of matrix argument. In this case one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Yu. Orlov

Using the matrix-resolvent method and a formula of the second-named author on the $n$-point function for a KP tau-function, we show that the tau-function of an arbitrary solution to the Toda lattice hierarchy is a KP tau-function. We then…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-08-12 Di Yang , Jian Zhou

Matrix integrals used in random matrix theory for the study of eigenvalues of Hermitian ensembles have been shown to provide $\tau$-functions for several hierarchies of integrable equations. In this article, we extend this relation by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-11-23 Stéphane Lafortune , Chun-Xia Li

In this paper, we discuss the properties of the generating functions of spin Hurwitz numbers. In particular, for spin Hurwitz numbers with arbitrary ramification profiles, we construct the weighed sums which are given by Orlov's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alexander Alexandrov , Sergey Shadrin

Matrix hierarchies are: multi-component KP, general Zakharov-Shabat (ZS) and its special cases, e.g., AKNS. The ZS comprises all integrable systems having a form of zero-curvature equations with rational dependence of matrices on a spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 L. A. Dickey

Some new developments in constrained Lax integrable systems and their applications to physics are reviewed. After summarizing the tau function construction of the KP hierarchy and the basic concepts of the symmetry of nonlinear equations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 H. Aratyn

Connections between classical and quantum integrable systems are analyzed from the viewpoint of Slavnov products of Bethe states. It is well known that, modulo model dependent aspects, the functional structure of Slavnov products generally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-28 Thiago Araujo

A fermionic representation is given for all the quantities entering in the generating function approach to weighted Hurwitz numbers and topological recursion. This includes: KP and 2D Toda $\tau$-functions of hypergeometric type, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 A. Alexandrov , G. Chapuy , B. Eynard , J. Harnad

We study the Pfaff lattice, introduced by us in the context of a Lie algebra splitting of gl(infinity) into sp(infinity) and lower-triangular matrices. We establish a set of bilinear identities, which we show to be equivalent to the Pfaff…

solv-int · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Adler , P. van Moerbeke

We introduce a useful and rather simple class of BKP tau functions which which we shall call "easy tau functions". We consider two versions of BKP hierarchy, one we will call "small BKP hierarchy" (sBKP) related to $O(\infty)$ introduced in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 A. Yu. Orlov , T. Shiota , K. Takasaki

We derive an explicit formula for the connected $(n,m)$-point functions associated to an arbitrary diagonal tau-function $\tau_f(\boldsymbol{t}^+,\boldsymbol{t}^-)$ of the 2d Toda lattice hierarchy using fermionic computations and the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-11-07 Zhiyuan Wang , Chenglang Yang

This paper mainly talks about the Cauchy two-matrix model and its corresponding integrable hi- erarchy with the help of orthogonal polynomials theory and Toda-type equations. Starting from the symmetric reduction of Cauchy biorthogonal…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-07-04 Chunxia Li , Shi-Hao Li