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The Wigner-Dyson-Mehta bulk universality conjecture for Wigner matrices

Probability 2011-09-20 v4

Abstract

A well known conjecture of Wigner, Dyson, and Mehta asserts that the (appropriately normalized) kk-point correlation functions of the eigenvalues of random n×nn \times n Wigner matrices in the bulk of the spectrum converge (in various senses) to the kk-point correlation function of the Dyson sine process in the asymptotic limit nn \to \infty. There has been much recent progress on this conjecture, in particular it has been established under a wide variety of decay, regularity, and moment hypotheses on the underlying atom distribution of the Wigner ensemble, and using various notions of convergence. Building upon these previous results, we establish new instances of this conjecture with weaker hypotheses on the atom distribution and stronger notions of convergence. In particular, assuming only a finite moment condition on the atom distribution, we can obtain convergence in the vague sense, and assuming an additional regularity condition, we can upgrade this convergence to locally L1L^1 convergence.

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@article{arxiv.1101.5707,
  title  = {The Wigner-Dyson-Mehta bulk universality conjecture for Wigner matrices},
  author = {Terence Tao and Van Vu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5707},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

16 pages, no figures, to appear, EJP. This is the final version, incorporating the referee's suggestions

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