Projections of orbital measures, Gelfand-Tsetlin polytopes, and splines

zbMATH Open1281.22003arXiv1302.7116MaRDI QIDQ5396010FDOQ5396010

Authors: G. I. Olshanskii 

Publication date: 5 February 2014

Abstract: The unitary group U(N) acts by conjugations on the space H(N) of NxN Hermitian matrices, and every orbit of this action carries a unique invariant probability measure called an orbital measure. Consider the projection of the space H(N) onto the real line assigning to an Hermitian matrix its (1,1)-entry. Under this projection, the density of the pushforward of a generic orbital measure is a spline function with N knots. This fact was pointed out by Andrei Okounkov in 1996, and the goal of the paper is to propose a multidimensional generalization. Namely, it turns out that if instead of the (1,1)-entry we cut out the upper left matrix corner of arbitrary size KxK, where K=2,...,N-1, then the pushforward of a generic orbital measure is still computable: its density is given by a KxK determinant composed from one-dimensional splines. The result can also be reformulated in terms of projections of the Gelfand-Tsetlin polytopes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7116

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zbMATH Keywords

B-splineHarish-Chandra-Itzykson-Zuber integralorbital measureGelfand-Tsetlin polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spline approximation (41A15) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30)

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