Eigenvalue dynamics and the matrix chain

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00250-3MaRDI QIDQ1572205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lori D. Paniak

Publication date 12 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9902089

zbMATH Keywords

boundary-value problemcritical behaviourDas-Jevicki-Sakita HamiltonianHilbert-Schmidt-type kernellinear Fredholm equationmatrix eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: We introduce a general method for transforming the equations of motion following from a Das-Jevicki-Sakita Hamiltonian, with boundary conditions, into a boundary value problem in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. For the particular case of a one-dimensional chain of interacting NxN Hermitean matrices, the corresponding large N boundary value problem is mapped into a linear Fredholm equation with Hilbert-Schmidt type kernel. The equivalence of this kernel, in special cases, to a second order differential operator allows us recover all previously known explicit solutions for the matrix eigenvalues. In the general case, the distribution of eigenvalues is formally derived through a series of saddle-point approximations. The critical behaviour of the system, including a previously observed Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, is interpreted in terms of the stationary points. In particular we show that a previously conjectured infinite series of sub-leading critical points are due to expansion about unstable stationary points and consequently not realized.

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