Non-intersecting squared Bessel paths at a hard-edge tacnode

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Abstract: The squared Bessel process is a 1-dimensional diffusion process related to the squared norm of a higher dimensional Brownian motion. We study a model of n non-intersecting squared Bessel paths, with all paths starting at the same point a>0 at time t=0 and ending at the same point b>0 at time t=1. Our interest lies in the critical regime ab=1/4, for which the paths are tangent to the hard edge at the origin at a critical time tin(0,1). The critical behavior of the paths for noinfty is studied in a scaling limit with time t=t+O(n1/3) and temperature T=1+O(n2/3). This leads to a critical correlation kernel that is defined via a new Riemann-Hilbert problem of size 4imes4. The Riemann-Hilbert problem gives rise to a new Lax pair representation for the Hastings-McLeod solution to the inhomogeneous Painlev'e II equation where u=alpha+1/2 with alpha>1 the parameter of the squared Bessel process. These results extend our recent work with Kuijlaars and Zhang cite{DKZ} for the homogeneous case u=0.



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