Resolvent reconstruction of minimal strings beyond KdV
Abstract
Minimal strings offer two ways to study quantum surfaces: through a spectral curve or through a differential equation. We ask how much of the quantum equation can be recovered once the classical curve and its motion with the background are known. Our starting point is the resolvent of a scalar differential operator. We require its one-boundary integral to have poles only at branch points, with the resulting differential regular at infinity. These conditions give a finite reconstruction procedure at each genus. When the branch points are simple and their energy values move, we prove that the quantum corrections are unique whenever the procedure is consistent. A specified string equation provides a solution if its trace primitive satisfies the same analytic conditions. The scalar construction also leads to amplitudes with several boundaries. We introduce the method through pure gravity and Ising, then explore higher-order, dual and nonunitary models. Higher-Airy examples connect the calculation to r-spin theory on a degenerate locus that requires a separate treatment of the inverse problem.
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BibTeX
@misc{ahmed2026resolvent,
title = {{Resolvent reconstruction of minimal strings beyond KdV}},
author = {Wasif Ahmed and Joydeep Naskar},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.28964},
eprint = {2609.28964},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28964},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Resolvent reconstruction of minimal strings beyond KdV
AU - Wasif Ahmed
AU - Joydeep Naskar
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.28964
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28964
AB - Minimal strings offer two ways to study quantum surfaces: through a spectral curve or through a differential equation. We ask how much of the quantum equation can be recovered once the classical curve and its motion with the background are known. Our starting point is the resolvent of a scalar differential operator. We require its one-boundary integral to have poles only at branch points, with the resulting differential regular at infinity. These conditions give a finite reconstruction procedure at each genus. When the branch points are simple and their energy values move, we prove that the quantum corrections are unique whenever the procedure is consistent. A specified string equation provides a solution if its trace primitive satisfies the same analytic conditions. The scalar construction also leads to amplitudes with several boundaries. We introduce the method through pure gravity and Ising, then explore higher-order, dual and nonunitary models. Higher-Airy examples connect the calculation to r-spin theory on a degenerate locus that requires a separate treatment of the inverse problem.
ER -