(Ir)regular singularities and Quantum Field Theory

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Random Matrices and Gauge theories

Riemannian Gaussian distributions, random matrix ensembles and diffusion kernels

Author(s)

Leonardo Santilli and Miguel Tierz

Topic

Random Matrices and Gauge theories

Abstract

We show that the Riemannian Gaussian distributions on symmetric spaces, introduced in recent years, are of standard random matrix type. We exploit this to compute analytically marginals of the probability density functions. This can be done fully, using Stieltjes-Wigert orthogonal polynomials, for the case of the space of Hermitian matrices, where the distributions have already appeared in the physics literature. For the case when the symmetric space is the space of (m x m) symmetric positive definite matrices, we show how to efficiently compute by evaluating Pfaffians at specific values of m. Equivalently, we can obtain the same result by constructing specific skew orthogonal polynomials with regards to the log-normal weight function (skew Stieltjes-Wigert polynomials). Other symmetric spaces are studied and the same type of result is obtained for the quaternionic case. Moreover, we show how the probability density functions are a particular case of diffusion reproducing kernels of the Karlin-McGregor type, describing non-intersecting Brownian motions, which are also diffusion processes in the Weyl chamber of Lie groups

Reference

Santilli, Leonardo, and Miguel Tierz. “Riemannian Gaussian distributions, random matrix ensembles and diffusion kernels.” Nuclear Physics B 973 (2021): 115582. doi=”10.1016/j.nuclphysb.115582″

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