Abstract
The modern version of conformal matrix model (CMM) describes conformal blocks in the Dijkgraaf-Vafa phase. Therefore it possesses a determinant representation and becomes a Toda chain T-function only after a peculiar Fourier transform in internal dimensions. Moreover, in CMM Hirota equations arise in a peculiar discrete form (when the couplings of CMM are actually Miwa time-variables). Instead, this integrability property is actually independent of the measure in the original hypergeometric integral. To get hypergeometric functions, one needs to pick up a very special T-function, satisfying an additional “string equation”. Usually its role is played by the lowest L-1 Virasoro constraint, but, in the Miwa variables, it turns into a finite-difference equation with respect to the Miwa variables. One can get rid of these differences by rewriting the string equation in terms of some double ratios of the shifted T-functions, and then these ratios satisfy more sophisticated equations equivalent to the discrete Painleve equations by M. Jimbo and H. Sakai (q-PVI equation). They look much simpler in the q-deformed (“5d“) matrix model, while in the “continuous” limit q → 1 to 4d one should consider the Miwa variables with non-unit multiplicities, what finally converts the simple discrete Painleve q-PVI into sophisticated differential Painleve VI equations, which will be considered elsewhere.
Highlights
Picking up a peculiar narrow class of τ -functions, they are naturally named “matrix-model τ -functions”, and finding a nice way to describe this class is one of the central problems in non-perturbative physics
This explains a significance of the claim [39] that the Painleve VI equation, whose solutions were associated with conformal blocks in [40,41,42,43], can be exactly the string equation for the conformal matrix model (CMM)
The Fourier transform of the q-conformal block has a manifest determinant representation when is presented by the conformal matrix model
Summary
The partition function of matrix model satisfies an infinite set of Ward identities. The number of solutions to the Ward identities are parameterized by the number of independent closed contours in the eigenvalue integral representation of matrix model (when the solution is not unique, the model is said to be in the Dijkgraaf-Vafa phase [51,52,53]). The concrete solution of the integrable hierarchy is fixed by the string equation(s), which is typically the lowest Ward identity(ies). The full set of Ward identities is equivalent to the integrable hierarchy with only the string equation added. Integrability properties do not depend on the choice of this measure function, only on the Vandermonde. The string equation is fully sensitive to the choice of the measure, and this makes it so important to specify the partition function of a particular matrix model within the relatively wide space of various τ -functions
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