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random matrix

Random matrix is a matrix-valued random variable?. Random matrix theory studies mainly the behaviour of eigenvalues and various functions of random matrices; as such it has large importance in physics.

• related entries: Calogero-Moser system, large N limit
• Madan Lal Mehta, Random matrices, 3rd ed. Pure and Applied Math. (Amsterdam) 142, Elsevier/Academic Press 2004. xviii+688 pp. MR2129906, gBooks
• wikipedia random matrix
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