# Nonlinear PDEs for Fredholm determinants arising from string equations

Abstract : String equations related to 2D gravity seem to provide, quite naturally and systematically, integrable kernels, in the sense of Its-Izergin-Korepin and Slavnov. Some of these kernels (besides the "classical" examples of Airy and Pearcey) have already appeared in random matrix theory and they have a natural Wronskian structure, given by one of the operators in the string relation $[L^\pm,Q^\pm] = \pm 1$, namely $L^\pm$. The kernels are intimately related to wave functions for Gel'fand-Dickey reductions of the KP hierarchy. The Fredholm determinants of these kernels also satisfy Virasoro constraints leading to PDEs for their log derivatives, and these PDEs depend explicitly on the solutions of Painlevé-like systems of ODEs equivalent to the relevant string relations. We give some examples coming from critical phenomena in random matrix theory (higher order Tracy-Widom distributions) and statistical mechanics (Ising models).
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Pré-publication, Document de travail
36 pages. 2012
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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00730546
Contributeur : Mattia Cafasso <>
Soumis le : lundi 10 septembre 2012 - 15:48:23
Dernière modification le : mercredi 29 novembre 2017 - 10:25:57

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• HAL Id : hal-00730546, version 1
• ARXIV : 1207.6341

### Citation

M. Adler, M. Cafasso, P. Van Moerbeke. Nonlinear PDEs for Fredholm determinants arising from string equations. 36 pages. 2012. 〈hal-00730546〉

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