## On the maximum of the C$$\beta$$E field.(English)Zbl 1457.60008

In this paper, the extremal values of (the logarithm of) the characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix whose spectrum is distributed according to the circular beta ensemble ($$C\beta E$$) are investigated. More precisely, assuming that $$X_n$$ is this characteristic polynomial and $$\mathbb{U}$$ is the unit circle, it is proved that $\sup\limits_{z\in\mathbb{U}}\mathrm{Re} \log{X_n(z)}=\sqrt{\frac{2}{\beta}}\left(\log n-{\frac{3}{4}} \log{\log{n}}+\mathcal{O}(1)\right)$ as well as an analogous statement for the imaginary part. The notation $$\mathcal{O}(1)$$ means that the corresponding family of random variables, indexed by $$n$$, is tight. This answers a conjecture of [Y. Fyodorov et al., “Freezing transition, characteristic polynomials of random matrices, and the Riemann zeta function”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, No. 17, Article ID 170601, 5 p. (2012; doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.170601); Y. Fyodorov and J. Keating, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A, Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 372, No. 2007, Article ID 20120503, 32 p. (2014; Zbl 1330.82028)]), originally formulated for the $$\beta=2$$ case, which corresponds to the circular unitary ensemble ($$CUE$$) field.

### MSC:

 60B20 Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) 60G70 Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes 15B52 Random matrices (algebraic aspects)

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