The laplace transform of the cut-and-join equation and the bouchard-mariño conjecture on hurwitz numbers

Abstract

We calculate the Laplace transform of the cut-and-join equation of Goulden, Jackson and Vakil. The result is a polynomial equation that has the topological structure identical to the Mirzakhani recursion formula for the Weil-Petersson volume of the moduli space of bordered hyperbolic surfaces. We find that the direct image of this Laplace transformed equation via the inverse of the Lambert W-function is the topological recursion formula for Hurwitz numbers conjectured by Bouchard and Mariño using topological string theory. © 2011 Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University. All rights reserved.