Lectures on the Asymptotic Expansion of a Hermitian Matrix Integral
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## Lectures on the Asymptotic Expansion of a Hermitian Matrix Integral

• Author(s): Mulase, Motohico
• et al.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/math-ph/9811023.pdf
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Abstract

In these lectures three different methods of computing the asymptotic expansion of a Hermitian matrix integral is presented. The first one is a combinatorial method using Feynman diagrams. This leads us to the generating function of the reciprocal of the order of the automorphism group of a tiling of a Riemann surface. The second method is based on the classical analysis of orthogonal polynomials. A rigorous asymptotic method is established, and a special case of the matrix integral is computed in terms of the Riemann $\zeta$-function. The third method is derived from a formula for the $\tau$-function solution to the KP equations. This method leads us to a new class of solutions of the KP equations that are \emph{transcendental}, in the sense that they cannot be obtained by the celebrated Krichever construction and its generalizations based on algebraic geometry of vector bundles on Riemann surfaces. In each case a mathematically rigorous way of dealing with asymptotic series in an infinite number of variables is established.

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