MATRIX AIRY FUNCTIONS FOR COMPACT LIE GROUPS

DOI10.1142/S0129167X09005595MaRDI QIDQ3638694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rahul N. Fernandez, V. S. Varadarajan

Publication date 28 October 2009

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3235

zbMATH Keywords

Airy functionCartan subalgebracompact Lie groupmatrix Airy function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Other functions defined by series and integrals (33E20)

Abstract: The classical Airy function has been generalised by Kontsevich to a function of a matrix argument, which is an integral over the space of (skew) hermitian matrices of a unitary-invariant exponential kernel. In this paper, the Kontsevich integral is generalised to integrals over the Lie algebra of an arbitrary connected compact Lie group, using exponential kernels invariant under the group. The (real) polynomial defining this kernel is said to have the Airy property if the integral defines a function of moderate growth. A general sufficient criterion for a polynomial to have the Airy property is given. It is shown that an invariant polynomial on the Lie algebra has the Airy property if its restriction to a Cartan subalgebra has the Airy property. This result is used to evaluate these invariant integrals completely and explicitly on the hermitian matrices, obtaining formulae that contain those of Kontsevich as special cases.

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