Ward identities in Matrix Models

See [Mor94, sec.2.2].

One may want wonder what differential equations does 1-matrix model

(1)

satisfty?

In this case we have enough counterterms so that under analytic change of integration variables preserves its integral form, just with some changed arguments . But of course change of dummy integration variable doesn't change the result of integration, so . Generators of such analytic changes of variables are

(2)

where is some infinitesimal matrix. So, for every we can introduce auxiliary argument in the definition of such that and and obtain Ward identity

(3)

or

(4)

Due to sufficient amount of counterterms we will be able to rewrite the derivative through ones and will get countably many Ward identities

(5)

This is the idea. Below follows its realization.

The deformed version of is

(6)

Let's first expand the exponent

(7)
(8)

The measure as always transforms by multiplying on Jacobian

(9)

where double index notation was used to express Jacobian matrix indices in this case. By the rules of matrix calculus we have

(10)

and we also know that

(11)

so

(12)

Now let's put everything back to (6)

(13)

and according to (4) we have

(14)

what can actually be rewritten in terms of derivatives in as it was promised in (5)

(15)

with

(16)

have turned out to be Virasoro operators.

Power sum variables

If one wish to switch to power sum variables

(17)

the simple substitution won't do the trick because of lost . So, we'd better first note that

(18)

and replace action of explicitly with this relation in (16)

(19)

where it's now assumed that

(20)

Everything is now prepared for substitution . In new variables becomes

(21)

First sum should be taken from , as it implicitly was done in (19).

We can also write symbolically

(22)

Pay attention to the lower sum limit. In that case

(23)

and (16) can be symbolically rewritten as

(24)

where every combination is treated as multiplication by . Lower bound of the first sum now is raised to 1 because even in (16) summation went from due to factor.

References

[Mor94]
A. Y. Morozov, “Integrability and matrix models,” Phys.-Uspekhi, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 1–55, 1994, doi: 10.1070/pu1994v037n01abeh000001. arXiv: hep-th/9303139.