Phase diagram and orthogonal polynomials in multiple well matrix models

Sep, 1990
36 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 6 (1991) 4491-4516
Report number:
  • IASSNS-HEP-90-69,
  • CCNY-HEP-90-18

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Abstract: (WSP)
We investigate a zero-dimensional Hermitian one-matrix model in a triple-well potential. Its tree-level phase structure is analyzed semiclassically as well as in the framework of orthogonal polynomials. Some multiple-arc eigenvalue distributions in the first method correspond to quasiperiodic large-N behavior of recursion coefficients for the second. We further establish this connection between the two approaches by finding three-arc saddle points from orthogonal polynomials. The latter require a modification for nondegenerate potential minima; we propose weighing the average over potential wells.
  • matrix model
  • dimension: 0
  • critical phenomena
  • potential
  • mathematical methods
  • expansion 1/N
  • energy: ground state
  • numerical calculations