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This is a brief survey of classical and recent results about the typical behavior of eigenvalues of large random matrices, written for mathematicians and others who study and use matrices but may not be accustomed to thinking about…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-11 Elizabeth Meckes

This survey provides an overview of common applications, both implicit and explicit, of "tensors" and "tensor products" in the fields of data science and statistics. One goal is to reconcile seemingly distinct usages of the term "tensor" in…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-31 William Krinsman

This article is an introduction to newly discovered relations between volumes of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces or super Riemann surfaces, simple models of gravity or supergravity in two dimensions, and random matrix ensembles. (The…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Edward Witten

This is a (long) survey about applications of percolation theory in equilibrium statistical mechanics. The chapters are as follows: 1. Introduction 2. Equilibrium phases 3. Some models 4. Coupling and stochastic domination 5. Percolation 6.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 H. -O. Georgii , O. Häggström , C. Maes

We present an overview of some recent developments in the theory of generalized formal series, grounded in diffeological geometric framework. These constructions aim to offer new tools for understanding infinite-dimensional phenomena in…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Jean-Pierre Magnot

Tensors, or multi-linear forms, are important objects in a variety of areas from analytics, to combinatorics, to computational complexity theory. Notions of tensor rank aim to quantify the "complexity" of these forms, and are thus also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mandar Juvekar , Arian Nadjimzadah

The development of compositional distributional models of semantics reconciling the empirical aspects of distributional semantics with the compositional aspects of formal semantics is a popular topic in the contemporary literature. This…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Edward Grefenstette

These are notes from the lectures I gave at the Oberwolfach seminar `Tensor Triangular Geometry and Interactions' which was held in October 2025. The aim of these notes is to give an introduction to tensor triangular geometry, for both…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Greg Stevenson

Random matrices now play a role in many parts of computational mathematics. To advance these applications, it is desirable to have tools that are flexible, easy to use, and powerful. Over the last 25 years, researchers have developed a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Joel A. Tropp

Tensor transpose is a higher order generalization of matrix transpose. In this paper, we use permutations and symmetry group to define? the tensor transpose. Then we discuss the classification and composition of tensor transposes.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Ran Pan

This is Part II of our work about random tensor inequalities and tail bounds for bivariate random tensor means. After reviewing basic facts about random tensors, we first consider tail bounds with more general connection functions. Then, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Shih-Yu Chang

Observables in random tensor theory are polynomials in the entries of a tensor of rank $d$ which are invariant under $U(N)^d$. It is notoriously difficult to evaluate the expectations of such polynomials, even in the Gaussian distribution.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Valentin Bonzom , Frédéric Combes

We present and investigate an extension of the classical random graph to a general class of inhomogeneous random graph models, where vertices come in different types, and the probability of realizing an edge depends on the types of its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bo Soderberg

The curse of dimensionality associated with the Hilbert space of spin systems provides a significant obstruction to the study of condensed matter systems. Tensor networks have proven an important tool in attempting to overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jacob C. Bridgeman , Christopher T. Chubb

Grassmann tensors arise from classical problems of scene reconstruction in computer vision. Trifocal Grassmann tensors, related to three projections from a projective space of dimension k onto view-spaces of varying dimensions are studied…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Marina Bertolini , Gian Mario Besana , Gilberto Bini , Cristina Turrini

The general linear model is a universally accepted method to conduct and test multiple linear regression models. Using this model one has the ability to simultaneously regress covariates among different groups of data. Moreover, there are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-15 Gavin T. Kress

Random matrix theory has played a major role in several areas of pure and applied mathematics, as well as statistics, physics, and computer science. This lecture aims to describe the intrinsic freeness phenomenon and how it provides new…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Afonso S. Bandeira

This survey contains a selection of topics unified by the concept of positive semi-definiteness (of matrices or kernels), reflecting natural constraints imposed on discrete data (graphs or networks) or continuous objects (probability or…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Alexander Belton , Dominique Guillot , Apoorva Khare , Mihai Putinar

Over the past decades, a great body of theoretical and mathematical work has been devoted to random-matrix descriptions of open quantum systems. In these notes, based on lectures delivered at the Les Houches Summer School "Stochastic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-09 Henning Schomerus

Contents: I. Introduction II. Manifolds in random media III. Thermal fluctuations without disorder IV. Random forces V. Random potential: variational approach VI. Physical interpretation of the solution

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Marc Mezard