Riemann–Hilbert approach to a generalized sine kernel

Abstract

We derive the large-distance asymptotics of the Fredholm determinant of the so-called generalized sine kernel at the critical point. This kernel corresponds to a generalization of the pure sine kernel arising in the theory of random matrices and has potential applications to the analysis of the large-distance asymptotic behaviour of the so-called emptiness formation probability for various quantum integrable models away from their free fermion point.