scholarly journals Buryak–Okounkov Formula for the n-Point Function and a New Proof of the Witten Conjecture

Author(s):  
Alexander Alexandrov ◽  
Francisco Hernández Iglesias ◽  
Sergey Shadrin

Abstract We identify the formulas of Buryak and Okounkov for the $n$-point functions of the intersection numbers of psi-classes on the moduli spaces of curves. This allows us to combine the earlier known results and this one into a principally new proof of the famous Witten conjecture/Kontsevich theorem, where the link between the intersection theory of the moduli spaces and integrable systems is established via the geometry of double ramification cycles.








10.37236/9890 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Do ◽  
Jian He ◽  
Daniel V. Mathews

Given a surface with boundary and some points on the boundary, a polygon diagram is a way to connect those points as vertices of non-overlapping polygons on the surface. Such polygon diagrams represent non-crossing permutations on the surface. If only bigons are allowed, then one obtains the notion of arc diagrams, whose enumeration is known to have a rich structure. We show that the count of polygon diagrams on surfaces with any genus and number of boundary components exhibits similar structure. In particular it is almost polynomial in the number of points on the boundary components, and the leading coefficients of those polynomials are intersection numbers on compactified moduli spaces of curves.







2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (09) ◽  
pp. 1650072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kefeng Liu ◽  
Motohico Mulase ◽  
Hao Xu

We establish the asymptotic expansion of certain integrals of [Formula: see text] classes on moduli spaces of curves [Formula: see text], when either the [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] goes to infinity. Our main tools are cut-join type recursion formulae from the Witten–Kontsevich theorem, as well as asymptotics of solutions to the first Painlevé equation. We also raise a conjecture on large genus asymptotics for [Formula: see text]-point functions of [Formula: see text] classes and partially verify the positivity of coefficients in generalized Mirzakhani’s formula of higher Weil–Petersson volumes.



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