Asymptotics for the partition function in two-cut random matrix models

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Abstract: We obtain large N asymptotics for the Hermitian random matrix partition function [Z_N(V)=int_{mathbb R^N}prod_{i<j}(x_i-x_j)^2 prod_{j=1}^N e^{-N V(x_j)}dx_j,] in the case where the external potential V is a polynomials such that the random matrix eigenvalues accumulate on two disjoint intervals (the two-cut case). We compute leading and sub-leading terms in the asymptotic expansion for logZN(V), up to terms that are small as N goes to infinity. Our approach is based on the explicit computation of the first terms in the asymptotic expansion for a quartic symmetric potential V. Afterwards, we use deformation theory of the partition function and of the associated equilibrium measure to generalize our results to general two-cut potentials V. The asymptotic expansion of logZN(V) as N goes to infinity contains terms that depend analytically on the potential V and that have already appeared in the literature. In addition our method allows to compute the V-independent terms of the asymptotic expansion of logZN(V) which, to the best of our knowledge, had not appeared before in the literature. We use rigorous orthogonal polynomial and Riemann-Hilbert techniques which had so far been successful to compute asymptotics for the partition function only in the one-cut case.



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