Universal microscopic correlation functions for products of truncated unitary matrices

Abstract

We investigate the spectral properties of the product of M complex non-Hermitian random matrices that are obtained by removing L rows and columns of larger unitary random matrices uniformly distributed on the group U(N + L). Such matrices are called truncated unitary matrices or random contractions. We first derive the joint probability distribution for the complex eigenvalues of the product matrix for fixed N, L, and M, given by a standard determinantal point process in the complex plane. The weight however is non-standard and can be expressed in terms of the Meijer G-function. The explicit knowledge of all eigenvalue correlation functions and the corresponding kernel allows us to take vari..