Painlevé XXXIV Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials for the Gaussian Weight with a Jump at the Edge

We study the uniform asymptotics of the polynomials orthogonal with respect to analytic weights with jump discontinuities on the real axis, and the influence of the discontinuities on the asymptotic behavior of the recurrence coefficients. The Riemann–Hilbert approach, also termed the Deift–Zhou steepest descent method, is used to derive the asymptotic results. We take as an example the perturbed Gaussian weight , where θ(x) takes the value of 1 for x < 0, and a nonnegative complex constant ω elsewhere, and  as . That is, the jump occurs at the edge of the support of the equilibrium measure. The derivation is carried out in the sense of a double scaling limit, namely,  and . A crucial local parametrix at the edge point where the jump occurs is constructed out of a special solution of the Painleve XXXIV equation. As a main result, we prove asymptotic formulas of the recurrence coefficients in terms of a special Painleve XXXIV transcendent under the double scaling limit. The special thirty-fourth Painleve transcendent is shown free of poles on the real axis. A consistency check is made with the reduced case when ω= 1, namely the Gaussian weight: the polynomials in this case are the classical Hermite polynomials. A comparison is also made of the asymptotic results for the recurrence coefficients between the case when the jump happens at the edge and the case with jump inside the support of the equilibrium measure. The comparison provides a formal asymptotic approximation of the Painleve XXXIV transcendent at positive infinity.

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