Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
2011-11-09
Physics
Mathematical Physics
69 pages, 16 figures
Scientific paper
We study a critical behavior for the eigenvalue statistics in the two-matrix model in the quartic/quadratic case. For certain parameters, the eigenvalue distribution for one of the matrices has a limit that vanishes with an exponent 1/2 in the interior of the support. The main result of the paper is a new kernel that describes the local eigenvalue correlations near that critical point. The kernel is expressed in terms of a 4 x 4 Riemann-Hilbert problem related to the Hastings-McLeod solution of the Painlev\'e II equation. We then compare the new kernel with two other critical phenomena that appeared in the literature before. First, we show that the critical kernel that appears in case of quadratic vanishing of the limiting eigenvalue distribution can be retrieved from the new kernel by means of a double scaling limit. Second, we briefly discuss the relation with the tacnode singularity in non-colliding Brownian motions that was recently analyzed. Although the limiting density in that model also vanishes with an exponent 1/2 at a certain interior point, the process at the local scale is different from the process that we obtain in the two-matrix model.
Duits Maurice
Geudens Dries
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