Fredholm determinants, differential equations and matrix models

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DOI10.1007/BF02101734zbMATH Open0813.35110arXivhep-th/9306042WikidataQ56950719 ScholiaQ56950719MaRDI QIDQ1328210FDOQ1328210

Craig A. Tracy, Harold Widom

Publication date: 1994

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Orthogonal polynomial random matrix models of NxN hermitian matrices lead to Fredholm determinants of integral operators with kernel of the form (phi(x) psi(y) - psi(x) phi(y))/x-y. This paper is concerned with the Fredholm determinants of integral operators having kernel of this form and where the underlying set is a union of open intervals. The emphasis is on the determinants thought of as functions of the end-points of these intervals. We show that these Fredholm determinants with kernels of the general form described above are expressible in terms of solutions of systems of PDE's as long as phi and psi satisfy a certain type of differentiation formula. There is also an exponential variant of this analysis which includes the circular ensembles of NxN unitary matrices.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9306042





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