at the
American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California
organized by
Peter Forrester, Brian Rider, and Balint Virag
This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to β-generalizations of the classical ensembles in random matrix theory. These are certain tridiagonal and unitary Hessenberg matrices, with an eigenvalue p.d.f. generalizing that of Gaussian Hermitian matrices and Haar distributed unitary matrices.
The β-generalizations lead to characterizations of the limiting eigenvalue distributions by way of certain stochastic differential equations involving Brownian motion. This in turn has been used to solve some previously intractable problems in random matrix theory, an example being the large distance asymptotic expansion of the spacing distributions for general β.
The time is ripe to use the stochastic characterization to tackle other problems fundamental to random matrix theory.
Universality Do the bulk scaled eigenvalues in the β-generalized Gaussian and circular ensembles have the same distribution, and what if the Gaussian is replaced by say a quartic? Seemingly different stochastic descriptions apply in these cases, and the task is to show that they are in fact identical.
Phase transitions Gaussian ensembles can be generalized to have Brownian motion valued entries, with one of the simplest initial conditions being to start all eigenvalues off at the origin except for one outlier. By tuning the value of the position of the outlier as a function of the size of the matirx, it is possible to get a critical regime, which is essentially the one studied in the context of spiked models. The problem here is to use the tridiagonal matrix models to study this setting, and to apply the findings to spiked models.
Integrability Random matrix theory is a rich arena of integrability, with key probabilistic quantites known in terms of solutions of certain (non-stochastic) d.e.'s. One would like to use the s.d.e.'s, or other structures not restricted to the classical couplings, as a pathway to exact results for general β.
The workshop will differ from typical conferences in some regards. Participants will be invited to suggest open problems and questions before the workshop begins, and these will be posted on the workshop website. These include specific problems on which there is hope of making some progress during the workshop, as well as more ambitious problems which may influence the future activity of the field. Lectures at the workshop will be focused on familiarizing the participants with the background material leading up to specific problems, and the schedule will include discussion and parallel working sessions.
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