Positive-integrality conjecture for time-delay matrix cumulants

Let XnX_n be distributed according to the Laguerre ensemble with parameter α=n\alpha=n, and define the rescaled inverse power traces

τk(n)=nk1TrXnk(k0).\tau_k(n)=n^{k-1}\operatorname{Tr}X_n^{-k}\qquad (k\geq 0).

Their expectations have the expansion

Eτk(n)=g=0κg(k)ng.\mathbb{E}\tau_k(n)=\sum_{g=0}^{\infty}\kappa_g(k)n^{-g}.

Positive-integrality conjecture. For β{1,2}\beta\in\{1,2\}, the expansion coefficients satisfy

κg(k)N.\kappa_g(k)\in\mathbb{N}.

This conjecture concerns the 1/n1/n-expansion of cumulants and moments of the time-delay matrix for ballistic chaotic cavities, where the inverse power traces are singular spectral statistics of the Laguerre ensemble. The source gives no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Fabio Deelan Cunden, Francesco Mezzadri, Neil O'Connell and Nick Simm, “Moments of random matrices and hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials”, arXiv:1805.08760 (2019).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1007.4181.

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