148 research outputs found
Eynard-Mehta theorem, Schur process, and their pfaffian analogs
We give simple linear algebraic proofs of Eynard-Mehta theorem,
Okounkov-Reshetikhin formula for the correlation kernel of the Schur process,
and Pfaffian analogs of these results. We also discuss certain general
properties of the spaces of all determinantal and Pfaffian processes on a given
finite set.Comment: AMSTeX, 21 pages, a new section adde
Nonintersecting Brownian motions on the half-line and discrete Gaussian orthogonal polynomials
We study the distribution of the maximal height of the outermost path in the
model of nonintersecting Brownian motions on the half-line as , showing that it converges in the proper scaling to the Tracy-Widom
distribution for the largest eigenvalue of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble.
This is as expected from the viewpoint that the maximal height of the outermost
path converges to the maximum of the process minus a
parabola. Our proof is based on Riemann-Hilbert analysis of a system of
discrete orthogonal polynomials with a Gaussian weight in the double scaling
limit as this system approaches saturation. We consequently compute the
asymptotics of the free energy and the reproducing kernel of the corresponding
discrete orthogonal polynomial ensemble in the critical scaling in which the
density of particles approaches saturation. Both of these results can be viewed
as dual to the case in which the mean density of eigenvalues in a random matrix
model is vanishing at one point.Comment: 39 pages, 4 figures; The title has been changed from "The limiting
distribution of the maximal height of nonintersecting Brownian excursions and
discrete Gaussian orthogonal polynomials." This is a reflection of the fact
that the analysis has been adapted to include nonintersecting Brownian
motions with either reflecting of absorbing boundaries at zero. To appear in
J. Stat. Phy
Airy processes and variational problems
We review the Airy processes; their formulation and how they are conjectured
to govern the large time, large distance spatial fluctuations of one
dimensional random growth models. We also describe formulas which express the
probabilities that they lie below a given curve as Fredholm determinants of
certain boundary value operators, and the several applications of these
formulas to variational problems involving Airy processes that arise in
physical problems, as well as to their local behaviour.Comment: Minor corrections. 41 pages, 4 figures. To appear as chapter in "PASI
Proceedings: Topics in percolative and disordered systems
Renormalized energy concentration in random matrices
We define a "renormalized energy" as an explicit functional on arbitrary
point configurations of constant average density in the plane and on the real
line. The definition is inspired by ideas of [SS1,SS3]. Roughly speaking, it is
obtained by subtracting two leading terms from the Coulomb potential on a
growing number of charges. The functional is expected to be a good measure of
disorder of a configuration of points. We give certain formulas for its
expectation for general stationary random point processes. For the random
matrix -sine processes on the real line (beta=1,2,4), and Ginibre point
process and zeros of Gaussian analytic functions process in the plane, we
compute the expectation explicitly. Moreover, we prove that for these processes
the variance of the renormalized energy vanishes, which shows concentration
near the expected value. We also prove that the beta=2 sine process minimizes
the renormalized energy in the class of determinantal point processes with
translation invariant correlation kernels.Comment: last version, to appear in Communications in Mathematical Physic
Fredholm Determinants, Differential Equations and Matrix Models
Orthogonal polynomial random matrix models of NxN hermitian matrices lead to
Fredholm determinants of integral operators with kernel of the form (phi(x)
psi(y) - psi(x) phi(y))/x-y. This paper is concerned with the Fredholm
determinants of integral operators having kernel of this form and where the
underlying set is a union of open intervals. The emphasis is on the
determinants thought of as functions of the end-points of these intervals. We
show that these Fredholm determinants with kernels of the general form
described above are expressible in terms of solutions of systems of PDE's as
long as phi and psi satisfy a certain type of differentiation formula. There is
also an exponential variant of this analysis which includes the circular
ensembles of NxN unitary matrices.Comment: 34 pages, LaTeX using RevTeX 3.0 macros; last version changes only
the abstract and decreases length of typeset versio
Noncolliding Squared Bessel Processes
We consider a particle system of the squared Bessel processes with index conditioned never to collide with each other, in which if
the origin is assumed to be reflecting. When the number of particles is finite,
we prove for any fixed initial configuration that this noncolliding diffusion
process is determinantal in the sense that any multitime correlation function
is given by a determinant with a continuous kernel called the correlation
kernel. When the number of particles is infinite, we give sufficient conditions
for initial configurations so that the system is well defined. There the
process with an infinite number of particles is determinantal and the
correlation kernel is expressed using an entire function represented by the
Weierstrass canonical product, whose zeros on the positive part of the real
axis are given by the particle-positions in the initial configuration. From the
class of infinite-particle initial configurations satisfying our conditions, we
report one example in detail, which is a fixed configuration such that every
point of the square of positive zero of the Bessel function is
occupied by one particle. The process starting from this initial configuration
shows a relaxation phenomenon converging to the stationary process, which is
determinantal with the extended Bessel kernel, in the long-term limit.Comment: v3: LaTeX2e, 26 pages, no figure, corrections made for publication in
J. Stat. Phy
Some Universal Properties for Restricted Trace Gaussian Orthogonal, Unitary and Symplectic Ensembles
Consider fixed and bounded trace Gaussian orthogonal, unitary and symplectic
ensembles, closely related to Gaussian ensembles without any constraint. For
three restricted trace Gaussian ensembles, we prove universal limits of
correlation functions at zero and at the edge of the spectrum edge. In
addition, by using the universal result in the bulk for fixed trace Gaussian
unitary ensemble, which has been obtained by Gtze and Gordin, we also
prove universal limits of correlation functions for bounded trace Gaussian
unitary ensemble.Comment: 19pages,bounded trace Gaussian ensembles are adde
On the partial connection between random matrices and interacting particle systems
In the last decade there has been increasing interest in the fields of random
matrices, interacting particle systems, stochastic growth models, and the
connections between these areas. For instance, several objects appearing in the
limit of large matrices arise also in the long time limit for interacting
particles and growth models. Examples of these are the famous Tracy-Widom
distribution functions and the Airy_2 process. The link is however sometimes
fragile. For example, the connection between the eigenvalues in the Gaussian
Orthogonal Ensembles (GOE) and growth on a flat substrate is restricted to
one-point distribution, and the connection breaks down if we consider the joint
distributions. In this paper we first discuss known relations between random
matrices and the asymmetric exclusion process (and a 2+1 dimensional
extension). Then, we show that the correlation functions of the eigenvalues of
the matrix minors for beta=2 Dyson's Brownian motion have, when restricted to
increasing times and decreasing matrix dimensions, the same correlation kernel
as in the 2+1 dimensional interacting particle system under diffusion scaling
limit. Finally, we analyze the analogous question for a diffusion on (complex)
sample covariance matrices.Comment: 31 pages, LaTeX; Added a section concerning the Markov property on
space-like path
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
Scaled limit and rate of convergence for the largest eigenvalue from the generalized Cauchy random matrix ensemble
In this paper, we are interested in the asymptotic properties for the largest
eigenvalue of the Hermitian random matrix ensemble, called the Generalized
Cauchy ensemble , whose eigenvalues PDF is given by
where is a complex number such
that and where is the size of the matrix ensemble. Using
results by Borodin and Olshanski \cite{Borodin-Olshanski}, we first prove that
for this ensemble, the largest eigenvalue divided by converges in law to
some probability distribution for all such that . Using
results by Forrester and Witte \cite{Forrester-Witte2} on the distribution of
the largest eigenvalue for fixed , we also express the limiting probability
distribution in terms of some non-linear second order differential equation.
Eventually, we show that the convergence of the probability distribution
function of the re-scaled largest eigenvalue to the limiting one is at least of
order .Comment: Minor changes in this version. Added references. To appear in Journal
of Statistical Physic
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