Dynamics of an outlier in the Gaussian unitary ensemble

Phys. Rev. E 112, 064104 (2025)

We endow the elements of a random matrix drawn from the Gaussian unitary ensemble with a Dyson Brownian motion dynamics. We initialize the dynamics of the eigenvalues with all of them lumped at the origin, but one outlier. We solve the dynamics exactly, which gives us a window on the dynamical scaling behavior at and around the Baik-Ben Arous-Péché transition. Amusingly, while the statics is well known and accessible via the Hikami-Brézin integrals, our approach for the dynamics is explicitly based on the use of orthogonal polynomials.


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