Heuristic Relative Entropy Principles with Complex Measures: Large-Degree Asymptotics of a Family of Multi-Variate Normal Random Polynomials
Autor: | Michael Karl-Heinz Kiessling |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Physics
Conjecture Degree (graph theory) 82B05 60B99 60F99 FOS: Physical sciences Sigma Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Mathematical Physics (math-ph) Expected value 01 natural sciences 010101 applied mathematics Combinatorics Random variate 0103 physical sciences 0101 mathematics 010306 general physics Random matrix Random variable Mathematical Physics Probability measure |
Popis: | We study expected values of the polynomials $P_N^{}(z)=\prod_{1\leq n\leq N}(X_n^2+z^2)$ whose $2N$ zeros $\{\pm i X_k\}^{}_{k=1,...,N}$ are generated by $N$ identically distributed multi-variate mean-zero normal random variables $\{X_k\}^{N}_{k=1}$ with co-variance ${\rm{Cov}}_N^{}(X_k,X_l)=(1+\frac{\sigma^2-1}{N})\delta_{k,l}+\frac{\sigma^2-1}{N}(1-\delta_{k,l})$. In principle these can be evaluated in closed form for arbitrary $N$, yet commonly available computer algebra handles only $N$ up to a dozen (due to memory constraints). A list of the first three expected polynomials shows that the expressions become unwieldy already for moderate $N$. On the other hand, asymptotic evaluations of the large-$N$ regime for complex $z$ have traditionally been limited to analytic expansion techniques, several rigorous results are proved about this regime for complex $z$. Yet if $z$ is real one can also compute the large-$N$ asymptotics in the "infinite-degree" limit with the help of the familiar relative entropy principle for probability measures, a rigorous proof of this fact is supplied. Computer algebra-generated evidence is presented in support of a conjecture that a generalization of the relative entropy principle to *{signed and complex measures}* governs the $N\to\infty$ asymptotics of the regime of imaginary $z$. Potential generalizations, in particular to point vortex ensembles and the prescribed Gauss curvature problem, and to random matrix ensembles, are emphasized. Comment: Essentially identical to version 2, except that some minor slips of pen and typos have been corrected. To appear in J. Stat. Phys |
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