Rigidity of eigenvalues of generalized Wigner matrices

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1435-1515

  Erdos, László ^a   Yau, Horng Tzer ^b   Yin, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyson Brownian motion; Local semicircle law; Random matrix; Tracy Widom distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055178439     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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