Lagrangian varieties from $q$-matrix models

Abstract

We consider three specific $q$-deformed matrix models (the Chern-Simons, $q$-Laguerre, and $q$-Gaussian matrix models) which can be solved explicitly using the property of superintegrability. We show that one- and two-point functions of inverse characteristic polynomials can be interpreted as quantizations of Lagrangian subvarieties in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^2$ and $(\mathbb{C}^*)^4$, respectively. While such a geometric picture is expected for the Chern-Simons matrix model, our results for the $q$-Laguerre and $q$-Gaussian models are new and exhibit additional features. In particular, specific anti-symplectic birational involutions play an essential role in the construction. This reformulation provides a geometric framework for analyzing the semiclassical, large-$N$ expansion of matrix-model correlators. This picture is suggestive of the geometry underlying open topological strings, although the two constructions are not identical and the precise relation between them remains to be understood.