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Relations between moments for the Jacobi and Cauchy random matrix ensembles

Mathematical Physics 2021-07-13 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We outline a relation between the densities for the β\beta-ensembles with respect to the Jacobi weight (1x)a(1+x)b(1-x)^a(1+x)^b supported on the interval (1,1)(-1,1) and the Cauchy weight (1ix)η(1+ix)ηˉ(1-\mathrm{i}x)^{\eta}(1+\mathrm{i}x)^{\bar{\eta}} by appropriate analytic continuation. This has the consequence of implying that the latter density satisfies a linear differential equation of degree three for β=2\beta=2, and of degree five for β=1\beta=1 and 44, analogues of which are already known for the Jacobi weight xa(1x)bx^a(1-x)^b supported on (0,1)(0,1). We concentrate on the case a=ba=b (Jacobi weight on (1,1)(-1,1)) and η\eta real (Cauchy weight) since the density is then an even function and the differential equations simplify. From the differential equations, recurrences can be obtained for the moments of the Jacobi weight supported on (1,1)(-1,1) and/or the moments of the Cauchy weight. Particular attention is paid to the case β=2\beta=2 and the Jacobi weight on (1,1)(-1,1) in the symmetric case a=ba=b, which in keeping with a recent result obtained by Assiotis et al.~for the β=2\beta=2 case of the symmetric Cauchy weight (parameter η\eta real), allows for an explicit solution of the recurrence in terms of particular continuous Hahn polynomials. Also for the symmetric Cauchy weight with η=β(N1)/21α\eta=-\beta(N-1)/2-1-\alpha, after appropriately scaling α\alpha proportional to NN, we use differential equations to compute terms in the 1/N21/N^2 (1/N1/N) expansion of the resolvent for β=2\beta=2 (β=1,4\beta=1,4).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2011.07856,
  title  = {Relations between moments for the Jacobi and Cauchy random matrix ensembles},
  author = {Peter J. Forrester and Anas A. Rahman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.07856},
  year   = {2021}
}

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32 pages

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