Collective potential for large N hamiltonian matrix models and free Fisher information

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2002-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0207200v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. A18 (2003) 917-938

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

25 pages, latex

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X03012230

We formulate the planar `large N limit' of matrix models with a continuously infinite number of matrices directly in terms of U(N) invariant variables. Non-commutative probability theory, is found to be a good language to describe this formulation. The change of variables from matrix elements to invariants induces an extra term in the hamiltonian,which is crucual in determining the ground state. We find that this collective potential has a natural meaning in terms of non-commutative probability theory:it is the `free Fisher information' discovered by Voiculescu. This formulation allows us to find a variational principle for the classical theory described by such large N limits. We then use the variational principle to study models more complex than the one describing the quantum mechanics of a single hermitian matrix (i.e., go beyond the so called D=1 barrier). We carry out approximate variational calculations for a few models and find excellent agreement with known results where such comparisons are possible. We also discover a lower bound for the ground state by using the non-commutative analogue of the Cramer-Rao inequality.

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