Volume 240, Number 3, 553-586, DOI: 10.1007/s00220-003-0918-1

Duality of Orthogonal and Symplectic Matrix Integrals and Quaternionic Feynman Graphs

Motohico Mulase and Andrew Waldron

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Abstract

We present an asymptotic expansion for quaternionic self-adjoint matrix integrals. The Feynman diagrams appearing in the expansion are ordinary ribbon graphs and their non-orientable counterparts. We show that the 2N×2N Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE) and N×N Gaussian Symplectic Ensemble (GSE) have exactly the same expansion term by term, except that the contributions from graphs on a non-orientable surface with odd Euler characteristic carry the opposite sign. As an application, we give a new topological proof of the known duality for correlations of characteristic polynomials, demonstrating that this duality is equivalent to Poincaré duality of graphs drawn on a compact surface. Another consequence of our graphical expansion formula is a simple and simultaneous (re)derivation of the Central Limit Theorem for GOE, GUE (Gaussian Unitary Ensemble) and GSE: The three cases have exactly the same graphical limiting formula except for an overall constant that represents the type of the ensemble.
Communicated by M. Aizenman
Research supported by NSF Grant DMS-9971371 and the University of California, Davis.
Research supported by the University of California, Davis.

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