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Perturbed Hankel determinant, correlation functions and Painlev\'e equations

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-01-20 v1

Abstract

We continue with the study of the Hankel determinant, Dn(t,α,β):=det(01xj+kw(x;t,α,β)dx)j,k=0n1, D_{n}(t,\alpha,\beta):=\det\left(\int_{0}^{1}x^{j+k}w(x;t,\alpha,\beta)dx\right)_{j,k=0}^{n-1}, generated by a Pollaczek-Jacobi type weight, w(x;t,α,β):=xα(1x)βet/x,x[0,1],α>0,β>0,t0. w(x;t,\alpha,\beta):=x^{\alpha}(1-x)^{\beta}{\rm e}^{-t/x}, \quad x\in [0,1], \quad \alpha>0, \quad \beta>0, \quad t\geq 0. This reduces to the "pure" Jacobi weight at t=0.t=0. We may take αR\alpha\in \mathbb{R}, in the situation while tt is strictly greater than 0.0. It was shown in Chen and Dai (2010), that the logarithmic derivative of this Hankel determinant satisfies a Jimbo-Miwa-Okamoto σ\sigma-form of Painlev\'e \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral5} ({\rm P_{\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral5}}}). In fact the logarithmic of the Hankel determinant has an integral representation in terms of a particular {\rm P_{\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral5}}}. \\ In this paper, we show that, under a double scaling, where nn the dimension of the Hankel matrix tends to \infty, and tt tends to 0+,0^{+}, such that s:=2n2ts:=2n^2t is finite, the double scaled Hankel determinant (effectively an operator determinant) has an integral representation in terms of a particular {\rm P_{\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3}'}}. Expansions of the scaled Hankel determinant for small and large ss are found. A further double scaling with α=2n+λ,\alpha=-2n+\lambda, where nn\rightarrow \infty and t,t, tends to 0+,0^{+}, such that s:=nts:=nt is finite. In this situation the scaled Hankel determinant has an integral representation in terms of a particular {\rm P_{\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral5}}}, %which can be degenerate to a particular {\rm P_{\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral3}}} and its small and large ss asymptotic expansions are also found.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1507.05261,
  title  = {Perturbed Hankel determinant, correlation functions and Painlev\'e equations},
  author = {Min Chen and Yang Chen and Engui Fan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05261},
  year   = {2016}
}
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