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Asymptotics of Hankel determinants with a multi-cut regular potential and Fisher-Hartwig singularities

Mathematical Physics 2023-02-20 v2 math.MP Probability

Abstract

We obtain large NN asymptotics for N×NN \times N Hankel determinants corresponding to non-negative symbols with Fisher-Hartwig (FH) singularities in the multi-cut regime. Our result includes the explicit computation of the multiplicative constant. More precisely, we consider symbols of the form ωefNV\omega e^{f-NV}, where VV is a real-analytic potential whose equilibrium measure μV\mu_V is supported on several intervals, ff is analytic in a neighborhood of supp(μV)\textrm{supp}(\mu_V), and ω\omega is a function with any number of jump- and root-type singularities in the interior of supp(μV)\textrm{supp}(\mu_V). While the special cases ω1\omega\equiv1 and ωef1\omega e^f\equiv1 have been considered previously in the literature, we also prove new results for these special cases. No prior asymptotics were available in the literature for symbols with FH singularities in the multi-cut setting. As an application of our results, we discuss a connection between the spectral fluctuations of random Hermitian matrices in the multi-cut regime and the Gaussian free field on the Riemann surface associated to μV\mu_V. As a second application, we obtain new rigidity estimates for random Hermitian matrices in the multi-cut regime.

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@article{arxiv.2111.08395,
  title  = {Asymptotics of Hankel determinants with a multi-cut regular potential and Fisher-Hartwig singularities},
  author = {Christophe Charlier and Benjamin Fahs and Christian Webb and Mo Dick Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.08395},
  year   = {2023}
}

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143 pages, 11 figures