Original article at: http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/viewarticle.php?id=1434

Differential Operators and Spectral Distributions of Invariant Ensembles from the Classical Orthogonal Polynomials. The Continuous Case

Michel Ledoux, Université Toulouse

Abstract

Following the investigation by U. Haagerup and S. Thorbjornsen, we present a simple differential approach to the limit theorems for empirical spectral distributions of complex random matrices from the Gaussian, Laguerre and Jacobi Unitary Ensembles. In the framework of abstract Markov diffusion operators, we derive by the integration by parts formula differential equations for Laplace transforms and recurrence equations for moments of eigenfunction measures. In particular, a new description of the equilibrium measures as adapted mixtures of the universal arcsine law with an independent uniform distribution is emphasized. The moment recurrence relations are used to describe sharp, non asymptotic, small deviation inequalities on the largest eigenvalues at the rate given by the Tracy-Widom asymptotics.

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Original article at: http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/viewarticle.php?id=1434