Universal shocks in the Wishart random-matrix ensemble. II. Nontrivial initial conditions

Jean-Paul Blaizot, Maciej A. Nowak, and Piotr Warchoł
Phys. Rev. E 89, 042130 – Published 16 April 2014

Abstract

We study the diffusion of complex Wishart matrices and derive a partial differential equation governing the behavior of the associated averaged characteristic polynomial. In the limit of large-size matrices, the inverse Cole-Hopf transform of this polynomial obeys a nonlinear partial differential equation whose solutions exhibit shocks at the evolving edges of the eigenvalue spectrum. In a particular scenario one of those shocks hits the origin that plays the role of an impassable wall. To investigate the universal behavior in the vicinity of this wall, i.e., in the vicinity of a critical point, we derive an integral representation for the averaged characteristic polynomial and study its asymptotic behavior. The result is a Bessoid function.

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  • Received 7 October 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.042130

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Jean-Paul Blaizot1,*, Maciej A. Nowak2,†, and Piotr Warchoł3,‡

  • 1IPTh, CNRS, URA No. 2306, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 2M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics and Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Center, Jagiellonian University, PL-30-059 Cracow, Poland
  • 3M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, PL-30-059 Cracow, Poland

  • *Jean-Paul.Blaizot@cea.fr
  • nowak@th.if.uj.edu.pl
  • piotr.warchol@uj.edu.pl

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Universal shocks in the Wishart random-matrix ensemble

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Phys. Rev. E 87, 052134 (2013)

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Vol. 89, Iss. 4 — April 2014

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