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We show in details that the all order genus expansion of the two-cut Hermitian cubic matrix model reproduces the perturbative expansion of the H1 Argyres-Douglas theory coupled to the Ω background. In the self-dual limit we use the Painlevé/gauge correspondence and we show that, after summing over all instanton sectors, the two-cut cubic matrix model computes the tau function of Painlevé II without taking any double scaling limit or adding any external fields. We decode such solution within the context of transseries. Finally in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit we connect the H1 and the H0 Argyres-Douglas theories to the quantum mechanical models with cubic and double well potentials.
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Grassi, A., Gu, J. Argyres-Douglas theories, Painlevé II and quantum mechanics. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 60 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2019)060
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