Semicircle law on short scales and delocalization of eigenvectors for Wigner random matrices

Annals of Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 815-852

  Erdos, László ^a   Schlein, Benjamin ^a   Yau, Horng Tzer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density of states; Extended states; Localization; Random Schr dinger operator; Semicircle law; Wigner random matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949568197     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOP421     Document Type: Article

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