Change of variables as a method to study general $β$-models: bulk universality

Abstract: We consider $\beta$ matrix models with real analytic potentials. Assuming that the corresponding equilibrium density $\rho$ has a one-interval support (without loss of generality $\sigma=[-2,2]$), we study the transformation of the correlation functions after the change of variables $\lambda_i\to\zeta(\lambda_i)$ with $\zeta(\lambda)$ chosen from the equation $\zeta'(\lambda)\rho(\zeta(\lambda))=\rho_{sc}(\lambda)$, where $\rho_{sc}(\lambda)$ is the standard semicircle density. This gives us the "deformed" $\beta$-model which has an additional "interaction" term. Standard transformation with the Gaussian integral allows us to show that the "deformed" $\beta$-model may be reduced to the standard Gaussian $\beta$-model with a small perturbation $n^{-1}h(\lambda)$. This reduces most of the problems of local and global regimes for $\beta$-models to the corresponding problems for the Gaussian $\beta$-model with a small perturbation. In the present paper we prove the bulk universality of local eigenvalue statistics for both one-cut and multi-cut cases.