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Asymptotic correlations for Gaussian and Wishart matrices with external source

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We consider ensembles of Gaussian (Hermite) and Wishart (Laguerre) N×NN\times N hermitian matrices. We study the effect of finite rank perturbations of these ensembles by a source term. The rank rr of the perturbation corresponds to the number of non-null eigenvalues of the source matrix. In the perturbed ensembles, the correlation functions can be written in terms of kernels. We show that for all NN, the difference between the perturbed and the unperturbed kernels is a degenerate kernel of size rr which depends on multiple Hermite or Laguerre functions. We also compute asymptotic formulas for the multiple Laguerre functions kernels in terms multiple Bessel (resp. Airy) functions. This leads to the large NN limiting kernels at the hard (resp. soft) edge of the spectrum of the perturbed Laguerre ensemble. Similar results are obtained in the Hermite case.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0604012,
  title  = {Asymptotic correlations for Gaussian and Wishart matrices with external source},
  author = {Patrick Desrosiers and Peter J. Forrester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0604012},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

31 pages, 2 figures; (v2) minor corrections, 3 refs added

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