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Recursions and asymptotics of intersection numbers. (English) Zbl 1349.14175

Integrals of psi classes over moduli spaces of curves with marked points arise naturally in the asymptotics of Wei-Petersson volumes, Hurwitz numbers, Gromov-Witten invariants, graph enumerations and 2D gravity. This paper studies asymptotic expansions of such integrals by using cut-and-join type recursion formula from Witten-Kontsevich theorem and asymptotics of solutions to the first Painleve equation. The authors also raise a conjecture on large genus asymptotics of n-point functions of psi classes and partially verify the positivity of coefficients in generalized Mirzakhani’s formula of higher Weil-Petersson volumes.

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14N35 Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects)
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