Bulk asymptotics of skew-orthogonal polynomials for quartic double well potential and universality in the matrix model

TL;DR

This paper derives bulk asymptotics of skew-orthogonal polynomials for a quartic double well potential and uses these results to establish universality in the matrix model's spectrum.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed asymptotic analysis of skew-orthogonal polynomials for the quartic potential and connects these to spectral universality in random matrix ensembles.

Findings

Asymptotics for skew-orthogonal polynomials are obtained.

Recursive coefficients of sop are asymptotically characterized.

Level densities and sine-kernels are derived in the bulk spectrum.

Abstract

We derive bulk asymptotics of skew-orthogonal polynomials (sop) $\pi^{\bt}_{m}$, $\beta=1$, 4, defined w.r.t. the weight $\exp(-2NV(x))$, $V (x)=gx^4/4+tx^2/2$, $g>0$ and $t<0$. We assume that as $m,N \to\infty$ there exists an $\epsilon > 0$, such that $\epsilon\leq (m/N)\leq \lambda_{\rm cr}-\epsilon$, where $\lambda_{\rm cr}$ is the critical value which separates sop with two cuts from those with one cut. Simultaneously we derive asymptotics for the recursive coefficients of skew-orthogonal polynomials. The proof is based on obtaining a finite term recursion relation between sop and orthogonal polynomials (op) and using asymptotic results of op derived in \cite{bleher}. Finally, we apply these asymptotic results of sop and their recursion coefficients in the generalized Christoffel-Darboux formula (GCD) \cite{ghosh3} to obtain level densities and sine-kernels in the bulk of the spectrum for orthogonal and symplectic ensembles of random matrices.