陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「254A, Notes 8: The circular law」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In this final set of lecture notes for this course, we leave the realm of self-adjoint matrix ensembles, such as Wigner random matrices, and consider instead the simplest examples of non-self-adjoint ensembles, namely the iid matrix ensembles. (I had also hoped to discuss recent progress in eigenvalue spacing distributions of Wigner matrices, but have run out of time. For readers interested in this topic, I can recommend the recent Bourbaki exposé of Alice Guionnet .) The bas

Theorem 1 (Circular law) Let be an iid matrix, whose entries , are iid with a fixed (complex) distribution of mean zero and variance one. Then the spectral measure converges both in probability and almost surely to the circular law , where are the real and imaginary coordinates of the complex plane.

已知结果和反例

This theorem has a long history; it is analogous to the semi-circular law, but the non-Hermitian nature of the matrices makes the spectrum so unstable that key techniques that are used in the semi-circular case, such as truncation and the moment method, no longer work; significant new ideas are required. In the case of random gaussian matrices, this result was established by Mehta (in the complex case) and by Edelman (in the real case), as was sketched out in Notes. In 1984,

One of the basic difficulties present in the non-Hermitian case is spectral instability : small perturbations in a large matrix can lead to large fluctuations in the spectrum. In order for any sort of analytic technique to be effective, this type of instability must somehow be precluded. The canonical example of spectral instability comes from perturbing the right shift matrix

证明或构造的主线

for some . The matrix is nilpotent: . Its characteristic polynomial is , and it thus has repeated eigenvalues at the origin. In contrast, obeys the equation , its characteristic polynomial is , and it thus has eigenvalues at the roots , of . Thus, even for exponentially small values of , say , the eigenvalues for can be quite far from the eigenvalues of , and can wander all over the unit disk. This is in sharp contrast with the Hermitian case, where eigenvalue inequalities su

so for we see that the resolvent has size roughly , which is exponentially large in the interior of the unit disk. This exponentially large size of resolvent is consistent with the exponential instability of the spectrum:

阅读时建议盯住的点

Exercise 2 Let be a square matrix, and let be a complex number. Show that if and only if there exists a perturbation of with such that has as an eigenvalue.

This already hints strongly that if one wants to rigorously prove control on the spectrum of near , one needs some sort of upper bound on , or equivalently one needs some sort of lower bound on the least singular value of . Without such a bound, though, the instability precludes the direct use of the truncation method , which was so useful in the Hermitian case. In particular, there is no obvious way to reduce the proof of the circular law to the case of bounded coefficients,

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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