Partition functions and the continuum limit in Penner matrix models

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/31/315205zbMATH Open1296.15017arXiv1403.6943OpenAlexW2114932511MaRDI QIDQ2877415FDOQ2877415

Authors: Gabriel Álvarez, Elena Medina, Luis Martínez Alonso 

Publication date: 22 August 2014

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present an implementation of the method of orthogonal polynomials which is particularly suitable to study the partition functions of Penner random matrix models, to obtain their explicit forms in the exactly solvable cases, and to determine the coefficients of their perturbative expansions in the continuum limit. The method relies on identities satisfied by the resolvent of the Jacobi matrix in the three-term recursion relation of the associated families of orthogonal polynomials. These identities lead to a convenient formulation of the string equations. As an application, we show that in the continuum limit the free energy of certain exactly solvable models like the linear and double Penner models can be written as a sum of gaussian contributions plus linear terms. To illustrate the one-cut case we discuss the linear, double and cubic Penner models, and for the two-cut case we discuss theoretically and numerically the existence of a double-branch structure of the free energy for the gaussian Penner model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6943

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zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal polynomialslarge \(N\) expansionPenner matrix modelsthree-term recursion relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) (60B20) Orthogonal polynomials and functions in several variables expressible in terms of special functions in one variable (33C50)

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