The Hankel Determinants from a Singularly Perturbed Jacobi Weight

Abstract

We study the Hankel determinant generated by a singularly perturbed Jacobi weight w(x,s):=(1−x)α(1+x)βe−s1−x,x∈[−1,1],α>0,β>0s≥0. If s=0, it is reduced to the classical Jacobi weight. For s>0, the factor e−s1−x induces an infinitely strong zero at x=1. For the finite n case, we obtain four auxiliary quantities Rn(s), rn(s), R˜n(s), and r˜n(s) by using the ladder operator approach. We show that the recurrence coefficients are expressed in terms of the four auxiliary quantities with the aid of the compatibility conditions. Furthermore, we derive a shifted Jimbo–Miwa–Okamoto σ-function of a particular Painlevé V for the logarithmic derivative of the Hankel determinant Dn(s). By variable substitution and some complicated calculations, we show that the quantity Rn(s) satisfies the four Painlevé equations. For the large n case, we show that, under a double scaling, where n tends to ∞ and s tends to 0+, such that τ:=n2s is finite, the scaled Hankel determinant can be expressed by a particular PIII′.

Keywords

• random matrix theory
• Hankel determinant
• singularly perturbed Jacobi weight
• ladder operators
• Painlevé V