Cut-and-join operators in cohomological field theory and topological recursion

Abstract

We construct a cubic cut-and-join operator description for the partition function of the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin topological recursion for a local spectral curve with simple ramification points. In particular, this class contains partition functions of all semi-simple cohomological field theories. The cut-and-join description leads to an algebraic version of topological recursion. For the same partition functions we also derive N families of the Virasoro constraints and prove that these constraints, supplemented by a deformed dimension constraint, imply the cut-and-join description.

35 pages, published version

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