Asymptotic analysis of a Fredholm determinant occurring in the description of the dynamical correlation functions of the Lieb--Liniger Bose gas

Abstract

We perform a large-$x$ asymptotic analysis of the Fredholm determinant of an integrable integral operator with generalized sine kernel, where $x$ controls the strength of the oscillations along the integration contour of the operator and will play the role of the distance variable in applications to the correlation functions of integrable quantum systems. Our generalized sine kernel involves a number of functional parameters that will allow us to adapt it to the analysis of the dynamical correlation functions of the Lieb--Liniger model at finite temperature and for all positive values of the coupling constant. It will also allow us to consider a class of equilibrium correlation functions that are governed by generalized Gibbs ensembles. Our work is based on the analysis of a matrix Riemann--Hilbert problem that is canonically connected with our integrable integral operator.