Witten's conjecture, Virasoro conjecture, and invariance of tautological equations
Abstract
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The main goal of this paper is to prove the following two conjectures for genus up to two:
1. Witten's conjecture on the relations between higher spin curves and Gelfand--Dickey hierarchy.
2. Virasoro conjecture for target manifolds with conformal semisimple Frobenius manifolds.
The main technique used in the proof is the invariance of tautological equations under loop group action.