We calculate the moments of the characteristic polynomials of $N\times N$ matrices drawn from the Hermitian ensembles of Random Matrix Theory, at a position t in the bulk of the spectrum, as a series expansion in powers of t. We focus in particular on the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble. We employ a novel approach to calculate the coefficients in this series expansion of the moments, appropriately scaled. These coefficients are polynomials in N. They therefore grow as $N\to\infty$, meaning that in this limit the radius of convergence of the series expansion tends to zero. This is related to oscillations as t varies that are increasingly rapid as N grows. We show that the $N\to\infty$ asymptotics of the moments can be derived from this expansion when $t=0$. When $t\ne 0$ we observe a surprising cancellation when the expansion coefficients for N and $N+1$ are formally averaged: this procedure removes all of the N-dependent terms leading to values that coincide with those expected on the basis of previously established asymptotic formulae for the moments. We obtain as well formulae for the expectation values of products of the secular coefficients.

Let $C_{\||.\||}$ be an ideal of compact operators with symmetric norm $\||.\||$. In this paper, we extend the van Hemmen–Ando norm inequality for arbitrary bounded operators as follows: if f is an operator monotone function on $[0,\infty)$ and S and T are bounded operators in $\mathbb{B}(\mathscr{H}\;\,)$ such that ${\rm{sp}}(S),{\rm{sp}}(T) \subseteq \Gamma_a=\{z\in \mathbb{C} \ | \ {\rm{re}}(z)\geq a\}$, then

\begin{equation*}\||f(S)X-Xf(T)\|| \leq\;f'(a) \ \||SX-XT\||,\end{equation*}

$X\in C_{\||.\||}$

${\rm{sp}}(S), {\rm{sp}}(T) \subseteq \Gamma_a$

\begin{equation*}\||S^r X-XT^r\|| \leq r a^{r-1} \ \||SX-XT\||,\end{equation*}

$X\in C_{\||.\||}$

$0\leq r\leq 1$

In this note, we give a classification of the maximal order Abelian subgroups of finite irreducible Coxeter groups. We also prove a Weyl group analog of Cartan’s theorem that all maximal tori in a connected compact Lie group are conjugate.

In this study, we consider the viscous compressible Navier–Stokes–Poisson equations, which consist of the balance laws for electron density and moment, and a Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential. The limit of vanishing electron mass of this system with both well/ill-prepared initial data on the whole space is rigorously justified within the framework of local smooth solution. We first make use of the symmetric hyperbolic–parabolic structure of the compressible Navier–Stokes–Poisson equation to obtain uniform estimate in the short time, by which we show uniform existence of local classical solution to the compressible Navier–Stokes–Poisson equation in $\mathbb {R}^d(d\geq 1)$. Further, with uniform estimate of time derivatives, we show the zero-electron-mass limit of the solutions for the compressible Navier–Stokes–Poisson equation with well-prepared initial data in $\mathbb {R}^d(d\geq 1)$ by using Aubin's lemma. A detailed spectral analysis on the linearized system is done so that we are able to prove the zero-electron-mass limit of the solutions with ill-prepared initial data in $\mathbb {R}^d(d\geq 3)$, where the convergence occurs away from the time $t=0$. Finally, note that the dissipation mechanism for the linearized compressible Navier–Stokes–Poisson system is different from that of the compressible Euler equations in Grenier (Commun. Partial Diff. Eqns. 21 (1996), 363–394); Grenier (Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 50 (1997), 821–865); Ukai (J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 26 (1986), 323–331), or that of the compressible Euler–Poisson equations in Ali and Chen (Nonlinearity 24 (2011), 2745–2761), since its eigenvalues are somehow similar to that of heat equation, and the fundamental solution contains a part behaving like the heat kernel, thus a big difficulty is the singularity of the heat kernel at $t=0$.