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In nuclear physics, random matrices were introduced by Eugene Wigner to model the nuclei of heavy atoms. [1] [2] Wigner postulated that the spacings between the lines in the spectrum of a heavy atom nucleus should resemble the spacings between the eigenvalues of a random matrix, and should depend only on the symmetry class of the underlying evolution. [4]
In probability theory, more specifically the study of random matrices, the circular law concerns the distribution of eigenvalues of an n × n random matrix with independent and identically distributed entries in the limit n → ∞.
The eigenvalue and eigenvector problem can also be defined for row vectors that left multiply matrix . In this formulation, the defining equation is. where is a scalar and is a matrix. Any row vector satisfying this equation is called a left eigenvector of and is its associated eigenvalue.
For the special case of correlation matrices, we know that = and = /.This bounds the probability mass over the interval defined by = (). Since this distribution describes the spectrum of random matrices with mean 0, the eigenvalues of correlation matrices that fall inside of the aforementioned interval could be considered spurious or noise.
Let = be an positive matrix: > for ,.Then the following statements hold. There is a positive real number r, called the Perron root or the Perron–Frobenius eigenvalue (also called the leading eigenvalue, principal eigenvalue or dominant eigenvalue), such that r is an eigenvalue of A and any other eigenvalue λ (possibly complex) in absolute value is strictly smaller than r, |λ| < r.
Euclidean random matrix. Within mathematics, an N × N Euclidean random matrix  is defined with the help of an arbitrary deterministic function f ( r, r ′) and of N points { ri } randomly distributed in a region V of d -dimensional Euclidean space. The element A ij of the matrix is equal to f ( ri, rj ): A ij = f ( ri, rj ).
Eigendecomposition of a matrix. In linear algebra, eigendecomposition is the factorization of a matrix into a canonical form, whereby the matrix is represented in terms of its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Only diagonalizable matrices can be factorized in this way. When the matrix being factorized is a normal or real symmetric matrix, the ...
Other names include Wishart ensemble (in random matrix theory, probability distributions over matrices are usually called "ensembles"), or Wishart–Laguerre ensemble (since its eigenvalue distribution involve Laguerre polynomials), or LOE, LUE, LSE (in analogy with GOE, GUE, GSE). [2]