On a new proof of the Okuyama--Sakai conjecture

Abstract

In [41] Okuyama and Sakai gave a conjectural equality for the higher genus generalized Brézin--Gross--Witten (BGW) free energies. In a recent work [46] we established the Hodge-BGW correspondence on the relationship between certain special cubic Hodge integrals and the generalized BGW correlators, and a proof of the Okuyama--Sakai conjecture was also given $ibid$. In this paper, we give a new proof of the Okuyama--Sakai conjecture by a further application of the Dubrovin--Zhang theory for the KdV hierarchy.

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