$q$-Deformed Topological Recursion, Weight Vectors and Algebraic Structures

Abstract

We investigate a $q$-deformation of the shifted topological recursion, extending the construction of Belliard-Bouchard-Kramer-Nelson to the context of quantum algebras. Through the study of highest weight vectors in $q$-deformed of $\mathcal{W}$-algebra representations, we derive a $q$-analogue of the topological recursion and show it yields $q$-deformed quantum curves. This framework unifies various approaches to quantum integrability and provides new insights into the geometry of $q$-deformed moduli spaces.