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Spectral analysis of the free orthogonal matrix

Operator Algebras 2009-08-17 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We compute the spectral measure of the standard generators uiju_{ij} of the Wang algebra Ao(n)A_o(n). We show in particular that this measure has support [2/n+2,2/n+2][-2/\sqrt{n+2},2/\sqrt{n+2}], and that it has no atoms. The computation is done by using various techniques, involving the general Wang algebra Ao(F)A_o(F), a representation of SU2qSU^q_2 due to Woronowicz, and several calculations with orthogonal polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.0901.1918,
  title  = {Spectral analysis of the free orthogonal matrix},
  author = {T. Banica and B. Collins and P. Zinn-Justin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1918},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, 4 figures