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 4: The semi-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

We can now turn attention to one of the centerpiece universality results in random matrix theory, namely the Wigner semi-circle law for Wigner matrices. Recall from previous notes that a Wigner Hermitian matrix ensemble is a random matrix ensemble of Hermitian matrices (thus ; this includes real symmetric matrices as an important special case), in which the upper-triangular entries , are iid complex random variables with mean zero and unit variance, and the diagonal entries a

In previous notes we saw that the operator norm of was typically of size , so it is natural to work with the normalised matrix . Accordingly, given any Hermitian matrix , we can form the (normalised) empirical spectral distribution (or ESD for short)

已知结果和反例

of , where are the (necessarily real) eigenvalues of , counting multiplicity. The ESD is a probability measure, which can be viewed as a distribution of the normalised eigenvalues of .

When is a random matrix ensemble, then the ESD is now a random measure – i.e. a random variable taking values in the space of probability measures on the real line. (Thus, the distribution of is a probability measure on probability measures!)

证明或构造的主线

Now we consider the behaviour of the ESD of a sequence of Hermitian matrix ensembles as . Recall from Notes 0 that for any sequence of random variables in a -compact metrisable space, one can define notions of convergence in probability and convergence almost surely . Specialising these definitions to the case of random probability measures on , and to deterministic limits, we see that a sequence of random ESDs converge in probability (resp. converge almost surely ) to a dete

Remark 1 As usual, convergence almost surely implies convergence in probability, but not vice versa. In the special case of random probability measures, there is an even weaker notion of convergence, namely convergence in expectation , defined as follows. Given a random ESD , one can form its expectation , defined via duality (the Riesz representation theorem) as

阅读时建议盯住的点

this probability measure can be viewed as the law of a random eigenvalue drawn from a random matrix from the ensemble. We then say that the ESDs converge in expectation to a limit if converges the vague topology to , thus

In general, these notions of convergence are distinct from each other; but in practice, one often finds in random matrix theory that these notions are effectively equivalent to each other, thanks to the concentration of measure phenomenon.

值得单独记下的条目

• Show that converges almost surely to if and only if converges almost surely to for all .
• Show that converges in probability to if and only if converges in probability to for all .
• Show that converges in expectation to if and only if converges to for all .
• Show that to prove convergence in expectation to the semi-circular law, it suffices to show that for , where is an expression that goes to zero as for fixed (and fixed choice of coefficient distribution ).
• Show that to prove convergence in probability to the semi-circular law, it suffices to show (4) together with the variance bound for .
• Show that to prove almost sure convergence to the semi-circular law, it suffices to show (4) together with the variance bound for and some . (Note here that it is useful to restrict to a lacunary sequence!)
• When is a positive even integer, Use Talagrand’s inequality and convexity of the Schatten norm to establish (6) (and hence (5) ) when is even.
• For odd, the formula still applies as long as is positive definite. Applying this observation, the Bai-Yin theorem, and Talagrand’s inequality to the norms of for a constant , establish (6) (and hence (5) ) when is odd also.

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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