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We study the asymptotics of Schur polynomials with partitions $lambda$ which are almost staircase; more precisely, partitions that differ from $((m-1)(N-1),(m-1)(N-2),ldots,(m-1),0)$ by at most one component at the beginning as $Nrightarrow infty$, for a positive integer $mge 1$ independent of $N$. By applying either determinant formulas or integral representations for Schur functions, we show that $frac{1}{N}log frac{s_{lambda}(u_1,ldots,u_k, x_{k+1},ldots,x_N)}{s_{lambda}(x_1,ldots,x_N)}$ converges to a sum of $k$ single-variable holomorphic functions, each of which depends on the variable $u_i$ for $1leq ileq k$, when there are only finitely many distinct $x_i$s and each $u_i$ is in a neighborhood of $x_i$, as $Nrightarrowinfty$. The results are related to the law of large numbers and central limit theorem for the dimer configurations on contracting square-hexagon lattices with certain boundary conditions.
We prove Stanleys conjecture that, if delta_n is the staircase shape, then the skew Schur functions s_{delta_n / mu} are non-negative sums of Schur P-functions. We prove that the coefficients in this sum count certain fillings of shifted shapes. In particular, for the skew Schur function s_{delta_n / delta_{n-2}}, we discuss connections with Eulerian numbers and alternating permutations.
We give overcrowding estimates for the Sine_beta process, the bulk point process limit of the Gaussian beta-ensemble. We show that the probability of having at least n points in a fixed interval is given by $e^{-frac{beta}{2} n^2 log(n)+O(n^2)}$ as $nto infty$. We also identify the next order term in the exponent if the size of the interval goes to zero.
For critical bond-percolation on high-dimensional torus, this paper proves sharp lower bounds on the size of the largest cluster, removing a logarithmic correction in the lower bound in Heydenreich and van der Hofstad (2007). This improvement finally settles a conjecture by Aizenman (1997) about the role of boundary conditions in critical high-dimensional percolation, and it is a key step in deriving further properties of critical percolation on the torus. Indeed, a criterion of Nachmias and Peres (2008) implies appropriate bounds on diameter and mixing time of the largest clusters. We further prove that the volume bounds apply also to any finite number of the largest clusters. The main conclusion of the paper is that the behavior of critical percolation on the high-dimensional torus is the same as for critical Erdos-Renyi random graphs. In this updated version we incorporate an erratum to be published in a forthcoming issue of Probab. Theory Relat. Fields. This results in a modification of Theorem 1.2 as well as Proposition 3.1.
We study the distribution of eigenvalues of almost-Hermitian random matrices associated with the classical Gaussian and Laguerre unitary ensembles. In the almost-Hermitian setting, which was pioneered by Fyodorov, Khoruzhenko and Sommers in the case of GUE, the eigenvalues are not confined to the real axis, but instead have imaginary parts which vary within a narrow band about the real line, of height proportional to $tfrac 1 N$, where $N$ denotes the size of the matrices. We study vertical cross-sections of the 1-point density as well as microscopic scaling limits, and we compare with other results which have appeared in the literature in recent years. Our approach uses Wards equation and a property which we call cross-section convergence, which relates the large-$N$ limit of the cross-sections of the density of eigenvalues with the equilibrium density for the corresponding Hermitian ensemble: the semi-circle law for GUE and the Marchenko-Pastur law for LUE.
The aim of this short article is to convey the basic idea of the original paper [3], without going into too much detail, about how to derive sharp asymptotics of the gyration radius for random walk, self-avoiding walk and oriented percolation above the model-dependent upper critical dimension.