3/10/2011
Alice Guionnet
ENS, Lyon, France
Topological expansion for random matrices
It is known till 't Hooft and Brezin-Itzykson-Paris and Zuber that the partition function of random matrices expand formally as a generating function for the enumeration of graphs sorted by their genera. We shall show that this expansion can be turned into an asymptotic expansion in a wide variety of models, including the so-called beta models.