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In these lecture notes I will give a pedagogical introduction to some common aspects of 4 different problems: (i) random matrices (ii) the longest increasing subsequence problem (also known as the Ulam problem) (iii) directed polymers in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satya N. Majumdar

The scaled standard Wigner matrix (symmetric with mean zero, variance one i.i.d. entries), and its limiting eigenvalue distribution, namely the semi-circular distribution, has attracted much attention. The $2k$th moment of the limit equals…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Arup Bose , Koushik Saha , Arusharka Sen , Priyanka Sen

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

We study ensembles of random symmetric matrices whose entries exhibit certain correlations. Examples are distributions of Curie-Weiss-type. We provide a criterion on the correlations ensuring the validity of Wigner's semicircle law for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Winfried Hochstättler , Werner Kirsch , Simone Warzel

It is described how one comes to the Wigner-Dyson random matrix theory (RMT) starting from a model of a disordered metal. The lectures start with a historical introduction where basic ideas of the RMT and theory of disordered metals are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. B. Efetov

For a class of random matrix ensembles with correlated matrix elements, it is shown that the density of states is given by the Wigner semi-circle law. This is applied to effective Hamiltonians related to the Anderson model in dimensions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey H. Schenker , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

These are lectures notes for a 4h30 mini-course held in Ulaanbaatar, National University of Mongolia, August 5-7th 2015, at the summer school "Stochastic Processes and Applications". It aims at presenting an introduction to basic results of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Gaëtan Borot

The Tracy-Widom distributions are among the most famous laws in probability theory, partly due to their connection with Wigner matrices. In particular, for $A=\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}(a_{ij})_{1 \leq i,j \leq n} \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Simona Diaconu

It is a classical result of Wigner that for an hermitian matrix with independent entries on and above the diagonal, the mean empirical eigenvalue distribution converges weakly to the semicircle law as matrix size tends to infinity. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Katrin Hofmann-Credner , Michael Stolz

Recently we considered a class of random matrices obtained by choosing distinct codewords at random from linear codes over finite fields and proved that under some natural algebraic conditions their empirical spectral distribution converges…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Chin Hei Chan , Maosheng Xiong

We define a class of random matrix ensembles that pertain to random looped polymers. Such random looped polymers are a possible model for bio-polymers such as chromatin in the cell nucleus. It is shown that the distribution of the largest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-16 Dieter W. Heermann , Manfred Bohn

These expository notes are centered around the circular law theorem, which states that the empirical spectral distribution of a nxn random matrix with i.i.d. entries of variance 1/n tends to the uniform law on the unit disc of the complex…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Charles Bordenave , Djalil Chafai

We consider a possible generalization of the random matrix theory, which involves the maximization of Tsallis' $q$-parametrized entropy. We discuss the dependence of the spacing distribution on $q$ using a non-extensive generalization of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Y. Abul-Magd

The goal of these expository notes is to give an introduction to random matrices for non-specialist of this topic focusing on the link between random matrices and systems of particles in interaction. We first recall some general results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Valentin Pesce

Random-matrix theory is applied to transition-rate matrices in the Pauli master equation. We study the distribution and correlations of eigenvalues, which govern the dynamics of complex stochastic systems. Both the cases of identical and of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Carsten Timm

This set of Montreal lectures is an elementary and sketchy introduction to the general field of random matrices. The first half is devoted to combinatorial models, whereas the second half deals with random matrix questions(GUE, etc...).

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-27 Pierre van Moerbeke

We study the eigenvalue of the Wigner random matrix, which is created from a time series with temporal correlation. We observe the deformation of the semi-circle law which is similar to the eigenvalue distribution of the Wigner-L\`{e}vy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-12 Masato Hisakado , Takuya Kaneko

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

The spectral graph theory provides an algebraical approach to investigate the characteristics of weighted networks using the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix (e.g., normalized Laplacian matrix) that represents the structure of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-19 Yusuke Sakumoto , Masaki Aida

This article is preface to the SIGMA special issue "Tensor Models, Formalism and Applications", http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/Tensor_Models.html. The issue is a collection of eight excellent, up to date reviews on random tensor models.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-26 Razvan Gurau