There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

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R J Baxter 1982 London: Academic xii + 486 pp price £43.60 Over the past few years there has been a growing belief that all the twodimensional lattice statistical models will eventually be solved and that it will be Professor Baxter who solves them. Baxter has inherited the mantle of Onsager who started the process by solving exactly the two-dimensional Ising model in 1944.

Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics

THE theory of Fourier integrals arises out of the elegant pair of reciprocal formulae The Laplace Transform By David Vernon Widder. (Princeton Mathematical Series.) Pp. x + 406. (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1941.) 36s. net.

The Laplace Transform

We provide a self-contained introduction to random matrices. While some applications are mentioned, our main emphasis is on three different approaches to random matrix models: the Coulomb gas method and its interpretation in terms of algebraic geometry, loop equations and their solution using topological recursion, orthogonal polynomials and their relation with integrable systems. Each approach provides its own definition of the spectral curve, a geometric object which encodes all the properties of a model. We also introduce the two peripheral subjects of counting polygonal surfaces, and computing angular integrals.

Random matrices

We prove the existence of a 1/N expansion to all orders in beta matrix models with a confining, off-critical potential corresponding to an equilibrium measure with a connected support. Thus, the coefficients of the expansion can be obtained recursively by the "topological recursion" of Chekhov and Eynard. Our method relies on the combination of a priori bounds on the correlators and the study of Schwinger-Dyson equations, thanks to the uses of classical complex analysis techniques. These a priori bounds can be derived following Boutet de Monvel, Pastur and Shcherbina, or for strictly convex potentials by using concentration of measure. Doing so, we extend the strategy of Guionnet and Maurel-Segala, from the hermitian models (beta = 2) and perturbative potentials, to general beta models. The existence of the first correction in 1/N has been considered previously by Johansson and more recently by Kriecherbauer and Shcherbina. Here, by taking similar hypotheses, we extend the result to all orders in 1/N.

Asymptotic expansion of beta matrix models in the one-cut regime

We prove the existence of a 1/N expansion to all orders in β matrix models with a confining, offcritical potential corresponding to an equilibrium measure with a connected support. Thus, the coefficients of the expansion can be obtained recursively by the “topological recursion” derived in Chekhov and Eynard (JHEP 0612:026, 2006). Our method relies on the combination of a priori bounds on the correlators and the study of Schwinger-Dyson equations, thanks to the uses of classical complex analysis techniques. These a priori bounds can be derived following (Boutet de Monvel et al. in J Stat Phys 79(3–4):585–611, 1995; Johansson in Duke Math J 91(1):151–204, 1998; Kriecherbauer and Shcherbina in Fluctuations of eigenvalues of matrix models and their applications, 2010) or for strictly convex potentials by using concentration of measure (Anderson et al. in An introduction to random matrices, Sect. 2.3, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010). Doing so, we extend the strategy of Guionnet and Maurel-Segala (Ann Probab 35:2160–2212, 2007), from the hermitian models (β = 2) and perturbative potentials, to general β models. The existence of the first correction in 1/N was considered in Johansson (1998) and more recently in Kriecherbauer and Shcherbina (2010). Here, by taking similar hypotheses, we extend the result to all orders in 1/N.

Asymptotic Expansion of β Matrix Models in the One-cut Regime

A matrix model for simple Hurwitz numbers, and topological recursion

We present detailed computations of the nondecaying terms (three dominant orders) of the free energy in a one-cut matrix model with a hard edge a, in β ensembles, with any polynomial potential. β > 0 is not restricted to the standard values β = 1 (Hermitian matrices), β = 1/2 (symmetric matrices) and β = 2 (quaternionic self-dual matrices). This model allows us to study the statistics of the maximum eigenvalue of random matrices. We compute the large deviation function to the left of the expected maximum. We specialize our results to the Gaussian β ensembles and check them numerically. Our method is based on general results and procedures already developed in the literature to solve the Pastur equations (also called 'loop equations'). It allows us to compute the left tail of the analog of Tracy–Widom laws for any β, including the constant term.

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Large deviations of the maximal eigenvalue of random matrices

We push further our study of the all-order asymptotic expansion in beta matrix models with a confining, offcritical potential, in the regime where the support of the equilibrium measure is a reunion of segments. We first address the case where the filling fractions of those segments are fixed, and show the existence of a 1/N expansion to all orders. Then, we study the asymptotic of the sum over filling fractions, in order to obtain the full asymptotic expansion for the initial problem in the multi-cut regime. We describe the application of our results to study the all-order small dispersion asymptotics of solutions of the Toda chain related to the one hermitian matrix model (beta = 2) as well as orthogonal polynomials outside the bulk.

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Gaëtan Borot

Papers

Asymptotic expansion of beta matrix models in the one-cut regime

Asymptotic Expansion of β Matrix Models in the One-cut Regime

A matrix model for simple Hurwitz numbers, and topological recursion

Large deviations of the maximal eigenvalue of random matrices

Asymptotic expansion of beta matrix models in the multi-cut regime