In this article we study in detail a family of random matrix ensembles which are obtained from random permutations matrices (chosen at random according to the Ewens measure of parameter $\theta \>0$) by replacing the entries equal to one by more general non-vanishing complex random variables. For these ensembles, in contrast with more classical models as the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble, or the Circular Unitary Ensemble, the eigenvalues can be very explicitly computed by using the cycle structure of the permutations....

Consider an $n\times n$ Hermitean matrix valued stochastic process ${\left\{H_t\right\}}_{t\ge 0}$ where the elements evolve according to Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. It is well known that the eigenvalues perform a so called Dyson Brownian motion, that is they behave as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes conditioned never to intersect.In this paper we study not only the eigenvalues of the full matrix, but also the eigenvalues of all the principal minors. That is, the eigenvalues of the $k\times k$ minors in the upper left corner of $H_t$. Projecting this...

We present a generalization of the method of the local relaxation flow to establish the universality of local spectral statistics of a broad class of large random matrices. We show that the local distribution of the eigenvalues coincides with the local statistics of the corresponding Gaussian ensemble provided the distribution of the individual matrix element is smooth and the eigenvalues {xj}j=1N are close to their classical location {γj}j=1N determined by the limiting density of eigenvalues. Under...

The Tracy–Widom $\beta$ distribution is the large dimensional limit of the top eigenvalue of $\beta$ random matrix ensembles. We use the stochastic Airy operator representation to show that as $a\to \infty$ the tail of the Tracy–Widom distribution satisfies $$P({\mathrm{𝑇𝑊}}_{\beta }gt;a)=a^{-(3/4)\beta +\mathrm{o}\left(1\right)}exp\left(-\frac{2}{3}\beta a^{3/2}\right).$$

In 1992, Speicher showed the fundamental fact that the probability measures playing the role of the classical Gaussian in the various non-commutative probability theories (viz. fermionic probability, Voiculescu’s free probability, and $q$-deformed probability of Bożejko and Speicher) all arise as the limits in a generalized Central Limit Theorem. The latter concerns sequences of non-commutative random variables (elements of a $*$-algebra equipped with a state) drawn from an ensemble of pair-wise commuting...