The Littlewood-Offord problem and invertibility of random matrices

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 600-633

  Rudelson, Mark ^a   Vershynin, Roman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition number; Littlewood Offord problem; Random matrices; Singular values; Small ball probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 41049114969     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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