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The Dyson Brownian minor process

Probability 2012-04-16 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Consider an n×nn\times n Hermitean matrix valued stochastic process {Ht}t0\{H_t\}_{t\geq 0} where the matrix elements evolve according to Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. It is well known that the eigenvalues perform a so called Dyson Brownian motion, that is they behave as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes conditioned never to intersect. In this paper we study not only the eigenvalues of the full matrix, but also the eigenvalues of all the principal minors. That is, the eigenvalues of the k×kk\times k in the upper left corner of HtH_t. If you project this process to a space-like path it is a determinantal process and we compute the kernel. This kernel contains as special cases the well known GUE minor kernel, discovered by Johansson-Nordenstam and Okounkov-Reshetikhin in 2006, and the Dyson Brownian motion kernel discovered by Forrester-Nagao in 1998. In the bulk scaling limit of this kernel it is possible to recover a time-dependent generalisation of Boutillier's bead kernel.

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@article{arxiv.1006.2956,
  title  = {The Dyson Brownian minor process},
  author = {Mark Adler and Eric Nordenstam and Pierre van Moerbeke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2956},
  year   = {2012}
}

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30 pages, 2 figures

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