IWOTA 2019

International Workshop on
Operator Theory and its Applications

July 22-26, 2019
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Portugal

# Abstracts

## Type of sessions Plenary and semi-plenary Plenary Semi-plenary Analysis and Algebraic Geometry for Operator Variables Analysis and Synthesis for Operator Algebras Free Analysis and Free Probability Functional calculus, spectral sets and constants Gabor Analysis and Noncommutative Geometry Geometry of linear operators and operator algebras Hypercomplex Analysis and Operator Theory Integral Operators and Applications Linear Operators and Function Spaces Matrix Theory and Control Multivariable Operator Theory Operators of Harmonic Analysis, Related Function Spaces and Applications Operators on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces Operator Theoretical Methods in Mathematical Physics Order preserving operators on cones and applications Preserver Problems in Operator Theory and Functional Analysis Random Matrix Theory Representation Theory of Algebras and Groups Semigroups and Evolution Equations Spectral Theory and Differential Operators Toeplitz Operators, Convolution type Operators and Operator Algebras Truncated Moment Problems Random Matrix Theory

Torsten Ehrhardt
University of California, Santa Cruz

## Asymptotics of a determinant of a Hankel-like operator

Let $H_R$ be the integral operator defined on $L^2([R,\infty))$ with kernel $h(x+y)$, where $h$ is the Fourier transform of a certain nicely behaved symbol. While the asymptotics of the operator determinant of $I+H_R$ as $R\to\infty$ is rather trivial, the asymptotics as $R\to-\infty$ is not. One expects an answer analogous to the the theory of Toeplitz or Wiener-Hopf determinants, but the precise relationship is not immediately clear.

In he simplest cases, the analogue of a Szego-Widom/Achiezer-Kac Limit Theorem can be proved. The main interest however is in the case of certain symbols of Fisher-Hartwig type. Then the determinant describes probability distribution function of the largest real eigenvalue of the real Ginibre random matrix ensemble in the $N\to\infty$ limit.

David Garcia Garcia
GFM - Universidade de Lisboa

## Toeplitz+Hankel determinants and matrix models for the classical groups

Toeplitz, Hankel, and Toeplitz+Hankel matrices play a central role in random matrix theory and several other fields of mathematics and physics. We will show how the theory of Schur polynomials and symmetric functions can be used to obtain several relations between the determinants and minors of these matrices. We will also discuss some applications of this approach to representation theory and orthogonal polynomials.

Håkan Hedenmalm
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

## Planar orthogonal polynomials and related random processes: random normal matrices and arithmetic jellium

We explore the recent advances on the orthogonal polynomials with respect to exponentially varying weights, and apply the results to the boundary universality of random normal matrices as well as the structure of a new process, coined arithmetic jellium.

Nam Gyu Kang
Korea Institute for Advanced Study

## Scaling limits for a family of 2D-Coulomb gas ensembles at soft/hard edges

In the theory of random Hermitian matrices, it is well known that Airy kernel describes spacing at the soft edge of the spectrum, and Bessel kernels at the hard edge. In this talk, I will introduce a family of rescaled 2D-Coulomb gas ensembles which interpolate the free boundary case and the hard edge case. I will discuss the edge universality for these ensembles when the underlying potential is radially symmetric. This is based on joint work with Yacin Ameur and Seong-Mi Seo.

Jordi Marzo
Universitat de Barcelona

## Transport Plans and Equidistribution

In this talk I will present some results about the convergence, in the Kantorovich-Vaserstein distance, of the empirical measure associated to a beta-ensemble towards its limiting measure. In our setting a beta-ensemble will be a random point process distributed according to the beta power of the determinant of a kernel. Particular examples are the spherical ensemble and its generalizations.

Alexei Poltoratski
Texas A&M University

## Type alternative for Frostman measures

Exponential type of a finite positive measure on the real line is defined as the infimum of the length of an interval such that exponential functions with frequencies from that interval span the $L^2$ space with respect to the measure. Finding the type of a given measure is a classical problem of Fourier analysis and spectral theory. In my talk I will discuss recent progress in the area of the type problem along with a new result, showing that the type of a Frostman measure can only equal zero or infinity.

Miguel Tierz
Universidade de Lisboa

## Schur and Chebyshev expansions of reproducing kernels

We give expansions, in terms of Schur and Chebyshev polynomials, of reproducing kernels of Christoffel-Darboux type, using results in random matrix theory, for a number of ensembles. We also explain the relationship with the study of minors and inverses of Toeplitz matrices.

Jani Virtanen
University of Reading, UK

## Double-scaling limits of Toeplitz determinants

This talk is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the determinants of Toeplitz matrices generated by symbols with an external parameter as the size of the matrices tends to infinity and the external parameter tends to a critical value. We focus on the applications of these double-scaling limits in random matrix theory and quantum spin chain models, and also compare the operator-theoretic approach to the Riemann-Hilbert analysis.

Meng Yang
Institut de Recherche en Mathématique et Physique, Université Catholique de Louvain

## Planar orthogonal polynomials with logarithmic singularities in the external potential

We consider the planar orthogonal polynomials with multiple logarithmic singularities in the potential and show that these orthogonal polynomials are the multiple orthogonal polynomials of Type II. This equivalence allows us to formulate the matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem for $p_n(z)$. We derive the strong asymptotics of $p_n(z)$ when $n$ goes to infinity and find the limiting locus of zeros of $p_n(z)$. This is a joint work with Seung-Yeop Lee (University of South Florida, U.S.).