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Random Matrices: High Dimensional Phenomena

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  • Date Published: October 2009
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521133128

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  • This book focuses on the behaviour of large random matrices. Standard results are covered, and the presentation emphasizes elementary operator theory and differential equations, so as to be accessible to graduate students and other non-experts. The introductory chapters review material on Lie groups and probability measures in a style suitable for applications in random matrix theory. Later chapters use modern convexity theory to establish subtle results about the convergence of eigenvalue distributions as the size of the matrices increases. Random matrices are viewed as geometrical objects with large dimension. The book analyzes the concentration of measure phenomenon, which describes how measures behave on geometrical objects with large dimension. To prove such results for random matrices, the book develops the modern theory of optimal transportation and proves the associated functional inequalities involving entropy and information. These include the logarithmic Sobolev inequality, which measures how fast some physical systems converge to equilibrium.

    • A modern theoretical treatment that includes new results and proofs
    • Contains introductory material and summaries of key points to make the book easily accessible to non-specialists
    • Its rigorous presentation means the book is still suitably comprehensive for mathematicians
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    • Date Published: October 2009
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521133128
    • length: 448 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 150 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.63kg
    • contains: 75 exercises
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Metric Measure spaces
    2. Lie groups and matrix ensembles
    3. Entropy and concentration of measure
    4. Free entropy and equilibrium
    5. Convergence to equilibrium
    6. Gradient ows and functional inequalities
    7. Young tableaux
    8. Random point fields and random matrices
    9. Integrable operators and differential equations
    10. Fluctuations and the Tracy–Widom distribution
    11. Limit groups and Gaussian measures
    12. Hermite polynomials
    13. From the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process to Burger's equation
    14. Noncommutative probability spaces
    References
    Index.

  • Author

    Gordon Blower, Lancaster University
    Gordon Blower is currently Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University, and Professor of Mathematical Analysis.

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