Toeplitz determinants with merging singularities

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Abstract: We study asymptotic behavior for determinants of nimesn Toeplitz matrices corresponding to symbols with two Fisher-Hartwig singularities at the distance 2tge0 from each other on the unit circle. We obtain large n asymptotics which are uniform for 0<t<t0 where t0 is fixed. They describe the transition as to0 between the asymptotic regimes of 2 singularities and 1 singularity. The asymptotics involve a particular solution to the Painlev'e V equation. We obtain small and large argument expansions of this solution. As applications of our results we prove a conjecture of Dyson on the largest occupation number in the ground state of a one-dimensional Bose gas, and a conjecture of Fyodorov and Keating on the second moment of powers of the characteristic polynomials of random matrices.


The authors study the asymptotic behavior for the determinants of \(n\times n\) Toeplitz matrices corresponding to symbols with two Fisher-Hartwig singularities at the distance \(2t\geq 0\) from each other on the unit circle. They obtain large \(n\) asymptotics which are uniform for \(0<t<t_0\), where \(t_0\) is fixed. These describe the transition as \(t\to 0\) between the asymptotic regimes of two singularities and one singularity. The asymptotics involve a particular solution to the Painlevé V equation. They also obtain small and large argument expansions of this solution. As applications they prove a conjecture of \textit{F. Dyson} [``Toeplitz determinants and Coulomb gases, lecture held at Eastern theoretical physics conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1963] on the largest occupation number in the ground state of a one-dimensional Bose gas, and a conjecture of \textit{Y. V. Fyodorov} and \textit{J. P. Keating} [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A, Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 372, No. 2007, Article ID 20120503, 32 p. (2014; Zbl 1330.82028)] on the second moment of powers of the characteristic polynomials of random matrices.



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