The free energy of matrix models and application to the microstates free entropy
Speaker:
Felix Parraud, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Date and Time:
Friday, November 17, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
In this presentation we will study multi-matrix models whose potentials are perturbations of the quadratic potential associated with independent GUE random matrices. More precisely, one can compute the free energy and the expectation of the trace of polynomials evaluated in those matrices. We prove an asymptotic expansion in the inverse of the matrix dimension to any order. Out of this result we deduce new formulas for map enumerations and the microstates free entropy. The approach that we take is based on the interpolation method between random matrices and free operators developed in earlier work.