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Degenerate and irregular topological recursion

Mathematical Physics 2025-05-13 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Geometry Combinatorics math.MP

Abstract

We use the theory of xyx-y duality to propose a new definition / construction for the correlation differentials of topological recursion; we call it "generalized topological recursion". This new definition coincides with the original topological recursion of Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin in the regular case and allows, in particular, to get meaningful answers in a variety of irregular and degenerate situations.

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@article{arxiv.2408.02608,
  title  = {Degenerate and irregular topological recursion},
  author = {Alexander Alexandrov and Boris Bychkov and Petr Dunin-Barkowski and Maxim Kazarian and Sergey Shadrin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02608},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v3: 30 pages; several corrections, clarifications and comments added thanks to the remarks of the anonymous referees

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