Mathematics – Classical Analysis and ODEs
Scientific paper
2006-05-08
Nonlinearity 19 (2006), 2211--2245
Mathematics
Classical Analysis and ODEs
52 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0951-7715/19/10/001
We study polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to a varying quartic weight \exp(-N(x^2/2+tx^4/4)) for t<0, where the orthogonality takes place on certain contours in the complex plane. Inspired by developments in 2D quantum gravity, Fokas, Its, and Kitaev, showed that there exists a critical value for t around which the asymptotics of the recurrence coefficients are described in terms of exactly specified solutions of the Painleve I equation. In this paper, we present an alternative and more direct proof of this result by means of the Deift/Zhou steepest descent analysis of the Riemann-Hilbert problem associated with the polynomials. Moreover, we extend the analysis to non-symmetric combinations of contours. Special features in the steepest descent analysis are a modified equililbrium problem and the use of Psi-functions for the Painleve I equation in the construction of the local parametrix.
Duits Maurice
Kuijlaars Arno
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