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Isomonodromic tau-functions from Liouville conformal blocks

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 Added by Oleg Lisovyy
 Publication date 2014
  fields Physics
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The goal of this note is to show that the Riemann-Hilbert problem to find multivalued analytic functions with $SL(2,mathbb{C})$-valued monodromy on Riemann surfaces of genus zero with $n$ punctures can be solved by taking suitable linear combinations of the conformal blocks of Liouville theory at $c=1$. This implies a similar representation for the isomonodromic tau-function. In the case $n=4$ we thereby get a proof of the relation between tau-functions and conformal blocks discovered in cite{GIL}. We briefly discuss a possible application of our results to the study of relations between certain $mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories and conformal field theory.



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