The sine-law gap probability, Painlevé 5, and asymptotic expansion by the topological recursion (Q2930545)

The authors investigate the connection between the Painlevé 5 integrable system and the universal eigenvalues correlation functions of double-scaled Hermitian matrix models. The results are obtained by applying the topological recursion method. It is shown that the WKB asymptotic expansions of the tau-function as well as of determinantal formulas arising from the Painlevé 5 Lax pair are identical to the large double scaling asymptotic expansions of the partition function and correlation functions of any Hermitian matrix model around a regular point in the bulk. As a result, the ``sine-law'' universal bulk asymptotic of large random matrices is given and an alternative perturbative proof of universality in the bulk with algebraic methods is provided.