8 M ay 2 00 6 Painlevé I asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials with respect to a varying quartic weight
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We study polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to a varying quartic weight exp(−N (x 2 /2+tx 4 /4)) for t < 0, where the orthogonal-ity takes place on certain contours in the complex plane. Inspired by developments in 2D quantum gravity, Fokas, Its, and Kitaev, showed that there exists a critical value for t around which the asymptotics of the recurrence coefficients are described in terms of exactly specified solutions of the Painlevé I equation. In this paper, we present an alternative and more direct proof of this result by means of the Deift/Zhou steepest descent analysis of the Riemann-Hilbert problem associated with the polynomials. Moreover, we extend the analysis to non-symmetric combinations of contours. Special features in the steepest descent analysis are a modified equililbrium problem and the use of Ψ-functions for the Painlevé I equation in the construction of the local parametrix.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008