Integrable systems of double ramification type

TL;DR

This paper explores the double ramification hierarchy, its quantization, and related integrable systems, providing explicit quantum corrections, new constructions, and evidence for the DR/DZ hierarchy equivalence up to genus 5.

Contribution

It extends tau-symmetry to quantum hierarchies, explicitly computes genus 1 quantum corrections, and introduces a new family of integrable systems of double ramification type.

Findings

Explicit genus 1 quantum correction computed

Quantization of 3- and 4-KdV hierarchies achieved

DR/DZ hierarchy equivalence proved up to genus 5

Abstract

In this paper we study various aspects of the double ramification (DR) hierarchy, introduced by the first author, and its quantization. We extend the notion of tau-symmetry to quantum integrable hierarchies and prove that the quantum DR hierarchy enjoys this property. We determine explicitly the genus $1$ quantum correction and, as an application, compute completely the quantization of the $3$- and $4$-KdV hierarchies (the DR hierarchies for Witten's $3$- and $4$-spin theories). We then focus on the recursion relation satisfied by the DR Hamiltonian densities and, abstracting from its geometric origin, we use it to characterize and construct a new family of quantum and classical integrable systems which we call of double ramification type, as they satisfy all of the main properties of the DR hierarchy. In the second part, we obtain new insight towards the Miura equivalence conjecture between the DR and Dubrovin-Zhang hierarchies, via a geometric interpretation of the correlators forming the double ramification tau-function. We then show that the candidate Miura transformation between the DR and DZ hierarchies (which we uniquely identified in our previous paper) indeed turns the Dubrovin-Zhang Poisson structure into the standard form. Eventually, we focus on integrable hierarchies associated with rank-$1$ cohomological field theories and their deformations, and we prove the DR/DZ equivalence conjecture up to genus $5$ in this context.