On the determinantal structure of conditional overlaps for the complex Ginibre ensemble

Abstract

We continue the study of joint statistics of eigenvectors and eigenvalues initiated in the seminal papers of Chalker and Mehlig. The principal object of our investigation is the expectation of the matrix of overlaps between the left and the right eigenvectors for the complex [Formula: see text] Ginibre ensemble, conditional on an arbitrary number [Formula: see text] of complex eigenvalues. These objects provide the simplest generalization of the expectations of the diagonal overlap ([Formula: see text]) and the off-diagonal overlap ([Formula: see text]) considered originally by Chalker and Mehlig. They also appear naturally in the problem of joint evolution of eigenvectors and eigenvalues for Brownian motions with values in complex matrices studied by the Krakow school. We find that these expectations possess a determinantal structure, where the relevant kernels can be expressed in terms of certain orthogonal polynomials in the complex plane. Moreover, the kernels admit a rather tractable expression for all [Formula: see text]. This result enables a fairly straightforward calculation of the conditional expectation of the overlap matrix in the local bulk and edge scaling limits as well as the proof of the exact algebraic decay and asymptotic factorization of these expectations in the bulk.