Renormalized energy concentration in random matrices

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Abstract: We define a "renormalized energy" as an explicit functional on arbitrary point configurations of constant average density in the plane and on the real line. The definition is inspired by ideas of [SS1,SS3]. Roughly speaking, it is obtained by subtracting two leading terms from the Coulomb potential on a growing number of charges. The functional is expected to be a good measure of disorder of a configuration of points. We give certain formulas for its expectation for general stationary random point processes. For the random matrix -sine processes on the real line (beta=1,2,4), and Ginibre point process and zeros of Gaussian analytic functions process in the plane, we compute the expectation explicitly. Moreover, we prove that for these processes the variance of the renormalized energy vanishes, which shows concentration near the expected value. We also prove that the beta=2 sine process minimizes the renormalized energy in the class of determinantal point processes with translation invariant correlation kernels.


The authors introduce a new definition of ``renormalized energy \(\mathcal{W}\) as an explicit functional on arbitrary point configurations of constant average density in the plane and on the real line, which is inspired by that of the renormalized energy \(W\) introduced in [\textit{E. Sandier} and \textit{S. Serfaty}, Commun. Math. Phys. 313, No. 3, 635--743 (2012; Zbl 1252.35034)] in the case of points in the plane and in [\textit{E. Sandier} and \textit{S. Serfaty}, ``1D log gases and the renormalized energy: crystallization at vanishing temperature, preprint, \url{arXiv:1303.2968}] in the case of points on the real line. The definitions for \(W\) and \(\mathcal{W}\) coincide when the point configuration has some periodicity. For the random matrix \(\beta\)-sine processes on the real line (\(\beta=1,2,4\)), and Ginibre point process and zeros of Gaussian analytic functions process in the plane, the authors compute the expectation of the renormalized energy explicitly. Moreover, it is proved that for these processes the variance of the renormalized energy vanishes which shows concentration near the expected value.



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