The Hodge-FVH correspondence

The Hodge-FVH correspondence establishes a relationship between the special cubic Hodge integrals and an integrable hierarchy, which is called the fractional Volterra hierarchy. In this paper we prove this correspondence. As an application of this result, we prove a gap condition for certain special cubic Hodge integrals and give an algorithm for computing the coefficients that appear in the gap condition.

RECURSION FOR MASUR-VEECH VOLUMES OF MODULI SPACES OF QUADRATIC DIFFERENTIALS

We derive a quadratic recursion relation for the linear Hodge integrals of the form $\langle \tau _{2}^{n}\lambda _{k}\rangle $ . These numbers are used in a formula for Masur-Veech volumes of moduli spaces of quadratic differentials discovered by Chen, Möller and Sauvaget. Therefore, our recursion provides an efficient way of computing these volumes.

Laguerre Ensemble: Correlators, Hurwitz Numbers and Hodge Integrals

We consider the Laguerre partition function and derive explicit generating functions for connected correlators with arbitrary integer powers of traces in terms of products of Hahn polynomials. It was recently proven in Cunden et al. (Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré D, to appear) that correlators have a topological expansion in terms of weakly or strictly monotone Hurwitz numbers that can be explicitly computed from our formulae. As a second result, we identify the Laguerre partition function with only positive couplings and a special value of the parameter $$\alpha =-1/2$$ α = - 1 / 2 with the modified GUE partition function, which has recently been introduced in Dubrovin et al. (Hodge-GUE correspondence and the discrete KdV equation. arXiv:1612.02333) as a generating function for Hodge integrals. This identification provides a direct and new link between monotone Hurwitz numbers and Hodge integrals.

Gromov–Witten Theory of $\text{K3} \times {\mathbb{P}}^1$ and Quasi-Jacobi Forms

Let $S$ be a K3 surface with primitive curve class $\beta$. We solve the relative Gromov–Witten theory of $S \times {\mathbb{P}}^1$ in classes $(\beta,1)$ and $(\beta,2)$. The generating series are quasi-Jacobi forms and equal to a corresponding series of genus $0$ Gromov–Witten invariants on the Hilbert scheme of points of $S$. This proves a special case of a conjecture of Pandharipande and the author. The new geometric input of the paper is a genus bound for hyperelliptic curves on K3 surfaces proven by Ciliberto and Knutsen. By exploiting various formal properties we find that a key generating series is determined by the very first few coefficients. Let $E$ be an elliptic curve. As collorary of our computations, we prove that Gromov–Witten invariants of $S \times E$ in classes $(\beta,1)$ and $(\beta,2)$ are coefficients of the reciprocal of the Igusa cusp form. We also calculate several linear Hodge integrals on the moduli space of stable maps to a K3 surface and the Gromov–Witten invariants of an abelian threefold in classes of type $(1,1,d)$.