3 research outputs found
Asymptotics for products of characteristic polynomials in classical -Ensembles
We study the local properties of eigenvalues for the Hermite (Gaussian),
Laguerre (Chiral) and Jacobi -ensembles of random matrices.
More specifically, we calculate scaling limits of the expectation value of
products of characteristic polynomials as . In the bulk of the
spectrum of each -ensemble, the same scaling limit is found to be
whose exact expansion in terms of Jack polynomials is well
known. The scaling limit at the soft edge of the spectrum for the Hermite and
Laguerre -ensembles is shown to be a multivariate Airy function, which
is defined as a generalized Kontsevich integral. As corollaries, when
is even, scaling limits of the -point correlation functions for the three
ensembles are obtained. The asymptotics of the multivariate Airy function for
large and small arguments is also given. All the asymptotic results rely on a
generalization of Watson's lemma and the steepest descent method for integrals
of Selberg type.Comment: [v3] 35 pages; this is a revised and enlarged version of the article
with new references, simplified demonstations, and improved presentation. To
be published in Constructive Approximation 37 (2013
Multifrequency variability of the blazar AO 0235+164 the WEBT campaign in 2004-2005 and long-term SED analysis
A huge multiwavelength campaign targeting the blazar AO 0235+164 was
organized by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) in 2003-2005 to study the
variability properties of the source. Monitoring observations were carried out
at cm and mm wavelengths, and in the near-IR and optical bands, while three
pointings by the XMM-Newton satellite provided information on the X-ray and UV
emission. We present the data acquired during the second observing season,
2004-2005, by 27 radio-to-optical telescopes. They reveal an increased near-IR
and optical activity with respect to the previous season. Increased variability
is also found at the higher radio frequencies, down to 15 GHz, but not at the
lower ones. The radio (and optical) outburst predicted to peak around
February-March 2004 on the basis of the previously observed 5-6 yr
quasi-periodicity did not occur. The analysis of the optical light curves
reveals now a longer characteristic time scale of 8 yr, which is also present
in the radio data. The spectral energy distributions corresponding to the
XMM-Newton observations performed during the WEBT campaign are compared with
those pertaining to previous pointings of X-ray satellites. Bright, soft X-ray
spectra can be described in terms of an extra component, which appears also
when the source is faint through a hard UV spectrum and a curvature of the
X-ray spectrum. Finally, there might be a correlation between the X-ray and
optical bright states with a long time delay of about 5 yr, which would require
a geometrical interpretation