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Replicas for Random Matrices

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-14 v2

Abstract

We discuss the use of the replica ansatz in computing free energies in random matrix theory, and confirm a conjectured condition on analytic continuation in the replica index at large-N.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2110.06643,
  title  = {Replicas for Random Matrices},
  author = {Madhusudhan Raman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06643},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v2: 11 pages, discussion improved, references and acknowledgements added

R2 v1 2026-06-24T06:51:22.494Z