Random matrices, graphical enumeration and the continuum limit of toda lattices

N. M. Ercolani, K. D.T.R. McLaughlin, V. U. Pierce

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Abstract

In this paper we derive analytic characterizations for and explicit evaluations of the coefficients of the matrix integral genus expansion. The expansion itself arises from the large N asymptotic expansion of the logarithm of the partition function of N × N Hermitian random matrices. Its g th coefficient is a generating function for graphical enumeration on Riemann surfaces of genus g. The case that we particularly consider is for an underlying measure that differs from the Gaussian weight by a single monomial term of degree 2ν. Our results are based on a hierarchy of recursively solvable differential equations, derived through a novel continuum limit, whose solutions are the coefficients we want to characterize. These equations are interesting in their own right in that their form is related to partitions of 2g + 1 and joint probability distributions for conditioned random walks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)31-81
Number of pages51
JournalCommunications in Mathematical Physics
Volume278
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2008

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

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