Following an inductive procedure developed in the setup of random matrices, it is possible to solve many problems of enumerative geometry with a unique formula called topological recursion. In particular, this procedure allows to compute higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants of some manifolds in terms of a mirror partner. In this talk, I will present this procedure and show that, in some particular cases, it is equivalent to a quantization formalism developed by Givental for expressing the potential of a semi-simple cohomological field theory in terms of KdV tau functions. This correspondence explains the universality of this procedure for computing Gromov-Witten invariants.
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[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/158
[4] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/5385