18.338J | Fall 2004 | Graduate

Infinite Random Matrix Theory

Lecture Notes

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2 The Hermite Ensemble: Wigner’s Semi-Circle Law

Histogramming (PDF)

Experiments with the Classical Ensembles (PDF)

Histogramming

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Experiments with the Classical Ensembles

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3 The Laguerre Ensemble: Marcenko-Pastur Theorem The Stieltjes Transform Based Approach (PDF) (Courtesy of Raj Rao. Used with permission.)  
5 The “Semi-Circular” Element: Central Limit Theorem for Infinite Random Matrices Tridiagonal Matrices, Orthogonal Polynomials and the Classical Random Matrix Ensembles (PDF) (Courtesy of Brian Sutton. Used with permission.) trijacobi.m (M)
6 Free Cumulants in Free Probability

Essentials of Finite Random Matrix Theory (PDF)

Numerical Methods in Random Matrices (PDF) (Courtesy of Per-Olof Persson. Used with permission.)

Essentials of Finite Random Matrix Theory

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7 Free Cumulants in Free Probability (cont.) Project Ideas (PDF)