On the asymptotics of some large Hankel determinants generated by Fisher-Hartwig symbols defined on the real line

We investigate the asymptotics of the determinant of N by N Hankel matrices generated by Fisher-Hartwig symbols defined on the real line, as N becomes large. Such objects are natural analogues of Toeplitz determinants generated by Fisher-Hartwig symbols, and arise in random matrix theory in the investigation of certain expectations involving random characteristic polynomials. The reduced density matrices of certain one-dimensional systems of impenetrable bosons can also be expressed in terms of Hankel determinants of this form. We focus on the specific cases of scaled Hermite and Laguerre weights. We compute the asymptotics using a duality formula expressing the N by N Hankel determinant as a 2|q|-fold integral, where q is a fixed vector, which is valid when each component of q is natural.We thus verify, for such q, a recent conjecture of Forrester and Frankel derived using a log-gas argument.Comment: 16 pages. Published version, with new references added, and some minor errors correcte

Correlations for the orthogonal-unitary and symplectic-unitary transitions at the hard and soft edges

For the orthogonal-unitary and symplectic-unitary transitions in random matrix theory, the general parameter dependent distribution between two sets of eigenvalues with two different parameter values can be expressed as a quaternion determinant. For the parameter dependent Gaussian and Laguerre ensembles the matrix elements of the determinant are expressed in terms of corresponding skew-orthogonal polynomials, and their limiting value for infinite matrix dimension are computed in the vicinity of the soft and hard edges respectively. A connection formula relating the distributions at the hard and soft edge is obtained, and a universal asymptotic behaviour of the two point correlation is identified.Comment: 37 pgs., 1fi

Asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials generated by a Geronimus perturbation of the Laguerre measure

This paper deals with monic orthogonal polynomials generated by a Geronimus canonical spectral transformation of the Laguerre classical measure for x in [0,?), ? > ?1, a free parameter N and a shift c<0. We analyze the asymptotic behavior (both strong and relative to classical Laguerre polynomials) of these orthogonal polynomials as n tends to infinity