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Dubrovin'S Superpotential As A Global Spectral Curve

Nicolas Gerson Orantin
2019
Journal Articles

Abstract

We apply the spectral curve topological recursion to Dubrovin's universal Landau-Ginzburg superpotential associated to a semi-simple point of any conformal Frobenius manifold. We show that under some conditions the expansion of the correlation differentials reproduces the cohomological field theory associated with the same point of the initial Frobenius manifold.

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Nicolas Gerson Orantin
2019
Journal Articles

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