Integer moments of complex Wishart matrices and Hurwitz numbers

  • Fabio Deelan Cunden

    Università di Bari, Italy
  • Antoine Dahlqvist

    University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
  • Neil O'Connell

    University College Dublin, Ireland
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Abstract

We give formulae for the cumulants of complex Wishart (LUE) and inverse Wishart matrices (inverse LUE). Their large- expansions are generating functions of double (strictly and weakly) monotone Hurwitz numbers which count constrained factorisations in the symmetric group. The two expansions can be compared and combined with a duality relation proved in [F. D. Cunden, F. Mezzadri, N. O’Connell, and N. J. Simm, Moments of random matrices and hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, Comm. Math. Phys. 369 (2019), no. 3, 1091–1145] to obtain: i) a combinatorial proof of the reflection formula between moments of LUE and inverse LUE at genus zero and, ii) a new functional relation between the generating functions of monotone and strictly monotone Hurwitz numbers. The main result resolves the integrality conjecture formulated in [F. D. Cunden, F. Mezzadri, N. J. Simm, and P. Vivo, Correlators for the Wigner–Smith time-delay matrix of chaotic cavities, J. Phys. A 49 (2016), no. 18, 18LT01, 20 pp] on the time-delay cumulants in quantum chaotic transport. The precise combinatorial description of the cumulants given here may cast new light on the concordance between random matrix and semiclassical theories.

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Fabio Deelan Cunden, Antoine Dahlqvist, Neil O'Connell, Integer moments of complex Wishart matrices and Hurwitz numbers. Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Comb. Phys. Interact. 8 (2021), no. 2, pp. 243–268

DOI 10.4171/AIHPD/103