Session II.5 - Random Matrices
Friday, June 16, 16:30 ~ 17:30
Asymptotic expansions relating to longest increasing subsequences in random permutations and analytic de-Poissonization
Folkmar Bornemann
Technische Universität München, Germany - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
In a seminal work, Baik/Deift/Johansson proved the limit distribution of the length of longest increasing subsequences in random permutations to be the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution. Since the rate of approximation is rather slow, we improve upon this limit by establishing an asymptotic expansion. This is done in two steps: expanding the limit of the Poissonized distribution as the hard-to-soft edge transition limit of LUE, followed by analytic de-Poissonization (replacing Johansson’s monotonicity-based de-Poissonization which would not allow us to go beyond the leading order). The proof is subject to a hypothesis on the zeros of the Poissonized distribution for complex intensities. Unexpectedly, all the concretely calculated expansion terms (up to the tenth order correction so far) take the form of a linear combination of higher-order derivatives of the Tracy-Widom distribution with certain rational polynomials as coefficients.