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Conditional Haar measures on classical compact groups

Probability 2009-08-28 v2

Abstract

We give a probabilistic proof of the Weyl integration formula on U(n), the unitary group with dimension nn. This relies on a suitable definition of Haar measures conditioned to the existence of a stable subspace with any given dimension pp. The developed method leads to the following result: for this conditional measure, writing ZU(p)Z_U^{(p)} for the first nonzero derivative of the characteristic polynomial at 1, ZU(p)p!=law=1np(1X),\frac{Z_U^{(p)}}{p!}\stackrel{\mathrm{law}}{=}\prod_{\ell =1}^{n-p}(1-X_{\ell}), the XX_{\ell}'s being explicit independent random variables. This implies a central limit theorem for logZU(p)\log Z_U^{(p)} and asymptotics for the density of ZU(p)Z_U^{(p)} near 0. Similar limit theorems are given for the orthogonal and symplectic groups, relying on results of Killip and Nenciu.

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@article{arxiv.0803.3753,
  title  = {Conditional Haar measures on classical compact groups},
  author = {P. Bourgade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.3753},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP443 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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