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Encyclopedia > Random matrix

In probability theory and statistics, a random matrix is a matrix-valued random variable. Probability theory is the mathematical study of probability. ... A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... In mathematics, a matrix (plural matrices) is a rectangular table of numbers or, more generally, of elements of a ring-like algebraic structure. ... A random variable is a term used in mathematics and statistics. ...


Random matrix theory topics

  • Spectral theory of random matrices
  • Free probability
  • Determinantal ensembles
  • Integral operators in random matrix theory
  • Dyson processes. Airy, Bessel, sine and Laguerre processes
  • Matrix Riemann-Hilbert methods, applications to large N asymptotics
  • Differential equations for gap distributions and transition probabilities
  • Relations to integrable systems and isomonodromic deformations
  • Growth processes; applications to fluid dynamics and crystal growth
  • Applications to random tilings, random words, random partitions
  • Applications to L-functions, including support for the Hilbert-Pólya conjecture.
  • Applications to multivariate statistics
  • Applications to nuclear physics, including the Gaussian unitary ensemble, the Gaussian symplectic ensemble, and the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble. The spectra and cross-sections nuclei measured in laboratories show that the dynamics of the nucleus is exceedingly complex. Evidence points at a chaotic behaviour similar to that seen on hyperbolic manifolds; random matrix theory attempts to model the gross properties of the nuclear spectra (distribution of resonances, spectral line widths) through ensembles of random matrices.
  • Applications to signal processing and wireless communications

In mathematics, spectral theory is an inclusive term for theories extending the eigenvector and eigenvalue theory of a single square matrix. ... Free probability is a mathematical theory which studies non-commutative random variables. ... In mathematics, an integral transform is any transform T of the following form: The input of this transform is a function f, and the output is another function Tf. ... Look up Airy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Airy is the surname of Sir George Biddell Airy who is the eponym of craters located on the Moon and Mars. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (July 22, 1784 – March 17, 1846) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which, despite their name, were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). ... In mathematics, the trigonometric functions are functions of an angle, important when studying triangles and modeling periodic phenomena. ... Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (April 9, 1834, Bar-le-Duc – August 14, 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). ... Bernhard Riemann. ... David Hilbert David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician born in Wehlau, near Königsberg, Prussia (now Znamensk, near Kaliningrad, Russia) who is recognized as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Fluid dynamics is the subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that studies fluids (liquids and gases) in motion. ... It has been suggested that crystallization processes be merged into this article or section. ... This is a list of partition topics, in the mathematical sense. ... The theory of L-functions has become a very substantial, and still largely conjectural, part of contemporary number theory. ... In mathematics, the Hilbert-Pólya conjecture is a possible approach to the Riemann hypothesis, by means of spectral theory. ... Multivariate statistics or multivariate statistical analysis in statistics describes a collection of procedures which involve observation and analysis of more than one statistical variable at a time. ... Nuclear physics is the branch of physics concerned with the nucleus of the atom. ... In most modern usages of the word spectrum, there is a unifying theme of a variety of possible cases between extremes at either end. ... Cross section may refer to the following In geometry, Cross section is the intersection of a 3-dimensional body with a plane. ... A plot of the trajectory Lorenz system for values r = 28, σ = 10, b = 8/3 In mathematics and physics, chaos theory deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that under certain conditions exhibit a phenomenon known as chaos. ... A triangle immersed in a saddle-shape plane, as well as two diverging parallel lines. ... The Tacoma Narrows Bridge (shown twisting) in Washington collapsed spectacularly, under moderate wind, in part because of resonance. ... Absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun. ... Signal processing is the processing, amplification and interpretation of signals and deals with the analysis and manipulation of signals. ...

See also

The Wigner semicircle distribution, named after the physicist Eugene Wigner, is the probability distribution supported on the interval [−R, R] the graph of whose probability density function f is a semicircle of radius R centered at (0, 0) and then suitably normalized (so that it is really a semi-ellipse... In statistics, the Wishart distribution, named in honor of John Wishart, is any of a family of probability distributions for nonnegative-definite matrix-valued random variables (random matrices). These distributions are of great importance in the estimation of covariance matrices in multivariate statistics. ...

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PlanetMath: random vector (230 words)
Similarly, one defines a random matrix to be a formal matrix whose entries are all random variables.
The size of a random vector and the size of a random matrix are assumed to be finite fixed constants.
Similary, the distribution of a random matrix is the joint distribution of its matrix components.
Linear Polynomial of a Random Vector (445 words)
A linear polynomial of a random vector is a random variable defined as a linear polynomial of some random vector.
n matrix and a is an m-dimensional vector.
Cholesky matrix A lower-triangular matrix that acts as a matrix "square root" for a positive definite matrix.
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