Speaker:
Xiaobo Liu
Institution:
Peking Univ. and Notre Dame University
Time:
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
RH 306
Kontsevich-Witten tau-function and the Hodge tau-function
are generating functions for two types of intersection numbers on
moduli spaces of stable curves. Both of them are tau functions for the
KP hierarchy. In this talk, I will describe how to connect these two
tau-functions by differential operators belonging to the
$\widehat{GL(\infty)}$ group. Indeed, these two tau-functions can be
connected using Virasoro operators. This proves a conjecture posted by
Alexandrov. This is a joint work with Gehao Wang.