Elementary proof for asymptotics of large Haar-distributed unitary matrices

DOI10.1007/S11005-007-0194-7MaRDI QIDQ2466418zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Mastrodonato, Roderich Tumulka

Publication date 14 January 2008

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3146

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian matricesHaar measure on the unitary grouprandom matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Convergence of probability measures (60B10)

Abstract: We provide an elementary proof for a theorem due to Petz and R'effy which states that for a random $nimesn$ unitary matrix with distribution given by the Haar measure on the unitary group U(n), the upper left (or any other) $kimesk$ submatrix converges in distribution, after multiplying by a normalization factor $sqrtn$ and as $noinfty$, to a matrix of independent complex Gaussian random variables with mean 0 and variance 1.

Review text

The authors prove that the left upper \(k\times k\) corner of a random Haar \(n\times n\) unitary matrix rescaled by a factor \(\sqrt{n}\) tends towards independent Gaussian matrices. The motivation for this investigation comes from quantum physics. The authors explain that they give a new proof of a result by \textit{D. Petz} and \textit{J. Réffy} [Period. Math. Hung. 49, No. 1, 103--117 (2004; Zbl 1092.15021)]. It should be mentioned here that this result is a direct corollary of results obtained earlier by other authors [e.g. \textit{G.I. Ol'shanskij}, Adv. Stud. Contemp. Math. 7, 269--463 (1990; Zbl 0724.22020)]. It is also interesting to mention that more general results have been obtained in the orthogonal case by \textit{T. Jiang} [Ann. Probab. 34, No. 4, 1497--1529 (2006; Zbl 1107.15018)].

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