{"title":"The quantum Witten–Kontsevich series and\u0000one-part double Hurwitz numbers","authors":"X. Blot","doi":"10.2140/gt.2022.26.1669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2022.26.1669","url":null,"abstract":"We study the quantum Witten-Kontsevich series introduced by Buryak, Dubrovin, Guere and Rossi in cite{buryak2016integrable} as the logarithm of a quantum tau function for the quantum KdV hierarchy. This series depends on a genus parameter $epsilon$ and a quantum parameter $hbar$. When $hbar=0$, this series restricts to the Witten-Kontsevich generating series for intersection numbers of psi classes on moduli spaces of stable curves. We establish a link between the $epsilon=0$ part of the quantum Witten-Kontsevich series and one-part double Hurwitz numbers. These numbers count the number non-equivalent holomorphic maps from a Riemann surface of genus $g$ to $mathbb{P}^{1}$ with a prescribe ramification profile over $0$, a complete ramification over $infty$ and a given number of simple ramifications elsewhere. Goulden, Jackson and Vakil proved in cite{goulden2005towards} that these numbers have the property to be polynomial in the orders of ramification over $0$. We prove that the coefficients of these polynomials are the coefficients of the quantum Witten-Kontsevich series. We also present some partial results about the full quantum Witten-Kontsevich power series.","PeriodicalId":254292,"journal":{"name":"Geometry & Topology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123088809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}