A central limit theorem for the determinant of a Wigner matrix

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-101

  Tao, Terence ^a   Vu, Van ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants; GOE; GUE; Random matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861675260     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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