Classical Limit of Conformal Blocks and the Painlevé Equation

Student: Stoian Artem

Educational Programme: Mathematics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

We discuss the irregular limit of Virasoro conformal blocks and show that their quasiclassical expansion can be found from a solution to the Painlevé III equation. We also study the connection to Mathieu spectral problem.

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