Asymptotic expansions of some Toeplitz determinants via the topological recursion

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Abstract: In this article, we study the large n asymptotic expansions of nimesn Toeplitz determinants whose symbols are indicator functions of unions of arc-intervals of the unit circle. In particular, we use an Hermitian matrix model reformulation of the problem to provide a rigorous derivation of the general form of the large n expansion when the symbol is an indicator function of either a single arc-interval or several arc-intervals with a discrete rotational symmetry. Moreover, we prove that the coefficients in the expansions can be reconstructed, up to some constants, from the Eynard-Orantin topological recursion applied to some explicit spectral curves. In addition, when the symbol is an indicator function of a single arc-interval, we provide the corresponding normalizing constants using a Selberg integral and illustrate the theoretical results with numeric simulations up to order oleft(frac1n4ight). We also briefly discuss the situation when the number of arc-intervals increases with n, as well as more general Toeplitz determinants to which we may apply the present strategy.


Consider the random matrix $M_{n}$ given by the circular ensemble on the complex numbers; this is in fact the Haar measure on the set of unitary matrices with complex entries. Then $M_{n}$ has with probability one $n$ eigenvalues of the form $e^{i\theta_{j}}$, with $\theta_{j}\in [0,2\pi],\ j=1,2,\ldots,n$. Now let $\mathcal{I}\subset [-\pi,\pi]$. The author wants to estimate {the probability that all values $\theta_{j}$ lie inside $\mathcal{I}$}, when $n$ gets large. In other words, for particular sets $\mathcal{I}$, he provides asymptotic formulas for $$Z_{n}(\mathcal{I}):=E[f(\theta_{1})\ldots f(\theta_{n})],$$ where $f$ is the indicator functions of $\mathcal{I}$. The particular sets are of the form $\mathcal{I}:=\bigcup_{j=1}^{d}[\alpha_{j},\beta_{j}]$. It is known that $Z_{n}(\mathcal{I})$ can be calculated by means of the determinant of a certain Toeplitz matrix, and also using a Hermitian matrix with a potential $V(x):=\log(1+x^{2}),\ x\in \mathbb{R}$. These reformulations help to carry out the analysis. To achieve the task, the author uses some correlation functions that fit into a concept called topological recursion which originally comes from the study of meromorphic functions on Riemann surfaces. Some recursive equations for the correlation functions can be found and used to ultimately give the asymptotics of $Z_{n}(\mathcal{I})$. When $d=1$ and $\beta_{1}=-\alpha_{1}=\epsilon \pi $, the asymptotics were found by \textit{H. Widom} [Adv. Math. 13, 284--322 (1974; Zbl 0281.47018)]. The cases that the article is able to tackle are the following: \begin{itemize} \item $d=1$ for general $\beta_{1}$ and $\alpha_{1}$.\\ \item $d=2r+1\geq 3$ odd, for $-r\leq j\leq r$, \[ [\alpha_{j}, \beta_{j}]=\left[ \frac{2\pi j}{d}-\frac{\pi \epsilon}{d}, \frac{2\pi j}{d}+\frac{\pi \epsilon}{d}\right]. \] \item $d=2s$ even, for $-(s-1)\leq j\leq s$, \[ [\alpha_{j}, \beta_{j}]=\left[ \frac{\pi (j-\frac{1}{2})}{s}- \frac{\pi \epsilon}{d}, \frac{\pi (j-\frac{1}{2})}{s}+ \frac{\pi \epsilon}{d} \right]. \] \end{itemize}



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