{ "id": "1908.11273", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-08-29T14:58:53.000Z", "updated": "2019-08-29T14:58:53.000Z", "title": "The stochastic Airy operator at large temperature", "authors": [ "Laure Dumaz", "Cyril Labbé" ], "comment": "40 pages, 4 figures", "categories": [ "math.PR", "cond-mat.stat-mech", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "It was shown in [J. A. Ram\\'irez, B. Rider and B. Vir\\'ag. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 24, 919-944 (2011)] that the edge of the spectrum of $\\beta$ ensembles converges in the large $N$ limit to the bottom of the spectrum of the stochastic Airy operator. In the present paper, we obtain a complete description of the bottom of this spectrum when the temperature $1/\\beta$ goes to $\\infty$: we show that the point process of appropriately rescaled eigenvalues converges to a Poisson point process on $\\mathbb{R}$ of intensity $e^x dx$ and that the eigenfunctions converge to Dirac masses centered at IID points with exponential laws. Furthermore, we obtain a precise description of the microscopic behavior of the eigenfunctions near their localization centers.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-08-29T14:58:53.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "stochastic airy operator", "large temperature", "poisson point process", "dirac masses", "appropriately rescaled eigenvalues converges" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 40, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }