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We identify the Givental formula for the ancestor formal Gromov–Witten potential with a version of the topological recursion procedure for a collection of isolated local germs of the spectral curve. As an application we prove a conjecture of Norbury and Scott on the reconstruction of the stationary sector of the Gromov–Witten potential of \({\mathbb{C}{\rm P}^1}\) via a particular spectral curve.
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Dunin-Barkowski, P., Orantin, N., Shadrin, S. et al. Identification of the Givental Formula with the Spectral Curve Topological Recursion Procedure. Commun. Math. Phys. 328, 669–700 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-1887-2
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