Electromagnetic Dissociation and Space Radiation

Relativistic nucleus-nucleus reactions occur mainly through the Strong or Electromagnetic (EM) interactions. Transport codes often neglect the latter. This work shows the importance of including EM interactions for space radiation applications.Comment: 11 page

Lengths of geodesics on non-orientable hyperbolic surfaces

We give an identity involving sums of functions of lengths of simple closed geodesics, known as a McShane identity, on any non-orientable hyperbolic surface with boundary which generalises Mirzakhani's identities on orientable hyperbolic surfaces with boundary.Comment: 23 pages; improved description of the moduli spac

Quantum curves and topological recursion

This is a survey article describing the relationship between quantum curves and topological recursion. A quantum curve is a Schr\"odinger operator-like noncommutative analogue of a plane curve which encodes (quantum) enumerative invariants in a new and interesting way. The Schr\"odinger operator annihilates a wave function which can be constructed using the WKB method, and conjecturally constructed in a rather different way via topological recursion.Comment: This article arose out of the Banff workshop Quantum Curves and Quantum Knot Invariants. Comments welcome. 20 pages, 1 figur

Enumerative geometry via the moduli space of super Riemann surfaces

In this paper we relate volumes of moduli spaces of super Riemann surfaces to integrals over the moduli space of stable Riemann surfaces $\overline{\cal M}_{g,n}$. This allows us to use a recursion between the super volumes recently proven by Stanford and Witten to deduce recursion relations of a natural collection of cohomology classes $\Theta_{g,n}\in H^*(\overline{\cal M}_{g,n})$. We give a new proof that a generating function for the intersection numbers of $\Theta_{g,n}$ with tautological classes on $\overline{\cal M}_{g,n}$ is a KdV tau function. This is an analogue of the Kontsevich-Witten theorem where $\Theta_{g,n}$ is replaced by the unit class $1\in H^*(\overline{\cal M}_{g,n})$. The proof is analogous to Mirzakhani's proof of the Kontsevich-Witten theorem replacing volumes of moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces with volumes of moduli spaces of super hyperbolic surfaces.Comment: 65 page

A new cohomology class on the moduli space of curves

We define a collection of cohomology classes $\Theta_{g,n}\in H^{4g-4+2n}(\overline{\cal M}_{g,n})$ for $2g-2+n>0$ that restrict naturally to boundary divisors. We prove that a generating function for the intersection numbers $\int_{\overline{\cal M}_{g,n}}\Theta_{g,n}\prod_{i=1}^n\psi_i^{m_i}$ is a tau function of the KdV hierarchy. This is analogous to the theorem conjectured by Witten and proven by Kontsevich that a generating function for the intersection numbers $\int_{\overline{\cal M}_{g,n}}\prod_{i=1}^n\psi_i^{m_i}$ is a tau function of the KdV hierarchy.Comment: 48 pages, revised paper, new proof of KdV theore