Density of eigenvalues of random normal matrices with an arbitrary potential, and of generalized normal matrices

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Abstract: Following the works by Wiegmann-Zabrodin, Elbau-Felder, Hedenmalm-Makarov, and others, we consider the normal matrix model with an arbitrary potential function, and explain how the problem of finding the support domain for the asymptotic eigenvalue density of such matrices (when the size of the matrices goes to infinity) is related to the problem of Hele-Shaw flows on curved surfaces, considered by Entov and the first author in 1990-s. In the case when the potential function is the sum of a rotationally invariant function and the real part of a polynomial of the complex coordinate, we use this relation and the conformal mapping method developed by Entov and the first author to find the shape of the support domain explicitly (up to finitely many undetermined parameters, which are to be found from a finite system of equations). In the case when the rotationally invariant function is , this is done by Wiegmann-Zabrodin and Elbau-Felder. We apply our results to the generalized normal matrix model, which deals with random block matrices that give rise to *-representations of the deformed preprojective algebra of the affine quiver of type hatAm−1. We show that this model is equivalent to the usual normal matrix model in the large N limit. Thus the conformal mapping method can be applied to find explicitly the support domain for the generalized normal matrix model.


The normal matrix model with an arbitrary potential function is considered, i.e. random normal matrices of some size \(N\) with the spectrum restricted to a compact domain \(D^1\) and probability measure \[ P_N(M)dM=Z_N^{-1}\text{exp}(-N\text{tr}W(M))dM \] where \(dM\) is the measure on the space of normal matrices induced by the Euclidian metric on the space of complex matrices, \(Z_N\) is a normalizing factor and the potential W is a real function on \(\mathbb{C}\) with some regularity condition. Some basic facts about the equilibrium measure are emphasized, such as its existence and uniqueness in the case of a continuous potential on a compact set \(D\subset\mathbb{C}\). The asymptotic eigenvalue distribution in the normal matrix model is provided. The construction of the boundary of the domain is discussed in the case of potentials of the form \(W(z)=\Phi(|z|^2)-P(z)-\overline{P(z)}\), where the function \(\Phi\) is continuous on \([0,\infty)\) and twice continuously differentiable on \([0,\infty)\) and \(P\) is a complex polynomial. The generalized conformal mapping method developed by \textit{V. M. Entov} and \textit{P. I. Etingof} [Eur. J. Appl. Math. 8, No. 1, 23--35 (1997; Zbl 0878.76023)] is used to determine the boundary of the region of eigenvalues explicitly. Some of these results are extended to the case of the generalized normal matrix model. For a fixed collection \(\lambda=(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_m)\) of real numbers with \(\sum_{i}\lambda_i=0\) and a domain \(D\), a matrix \(A\) of order \(mN\) over \(\mathbb{C}\) is a generalized normal matrix if \(A=[A_{ij}]\) where \(A_{ij},\;i,j=1,\dots,m\) are \(N\times N\) blocks with \(A_{ij}=0\) unless \(j-i=1\) mod \(m\), the spectrum of \(A_{12}A_{23}\cdots A_{m1}\) is contained in \(D\) and \([A,A^{\dag}]=\text{diag}(\lambda_1I_N,\dots,\lambda_mI_N)\). It is shown that this model is equivalent to the usual normal matrix model in the large \(N\) limit.











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