Mariño–Vafa conjecture for triple Hodge integrals

For the Deligne–Mumford moduli space of stable curves Mg,h\overline{{\mathcal M}}_{g,h}, let Λg(u)\Lambda_g^\vee(u) denote the total Chern polynomial of the Hodge bundle and let ψi\psi_i be the cotangent-line classes. The triple Hodge integrals are

Mg,hΛg(1)Λg(τ)Λg(τ1)i=1h(1μiψi).\int_{\overline{{\mathcal M}}_{g,h}}\frac{\Lambda_g^\vee(1)\Lambda_g^\vee(\tau)\Lambda_g^\vee(-\tau-1)}{\prod_{i=1}^h(1-\mu_i\psi_i)}.

Let G(λ;τ;p)G(\lambda;\tau;p) be the generating series of these integrals and R(λ;τ;p)R(\lambda;\tau;p) the representation-theoretic generating series defined using symmetric-group characters and the quantities Wμ(λ){\mathcal W}_\mu(\lambda). Mariño–Vafa conjecture. One has the identity

G(λ;τ;p)=R(λ;τ;p).G(\lambda;\tau;p)=R(\lambda;\tau;p).

The conjecture expresses all-genus, all-marked-point triple Hodge integrals through finite representation-theoretic or Chern–Simons data. In the supplied paper it is subsequently proved via matching cut-and-join equations and the initial value at τ=0\tau=0.

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Primary source

Kefeng Liu, “Localization and Conjectures from String Duality”, arXiv:math-ph/0701057 (2007).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2007). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0502430.

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