The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of foundational results and recent progress in the study of random matrices from the classical compact groups, drawing on the subject's deep connections to geometry, analysis, algebra, physics, and statistics. The book sets a foundation with an introduction to the groups themselves and six different constructions of Haar measure. Classical and recent results are then presented in a digested, accessible form, including the following: results on the joint distributions of the entries; an extensive treatment of eigenvalue distributions, including the Weyl integration formula, moment formulae, and limit theorems and large deviations for the spectral measures; concentration of measure with applications both within random matrix theory and in high dimensional geometry; and results on characteristic polynomials with connections to the Riemann zeta function. This book will be a useful reference for researchers and an accessible introduction for students in related fields.

Author: Elizabeth S. Meckes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/08/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781108419529

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2020

About the Author
Meckes, Elizabeth S.: - Elizabeth S. Meckes is Professor of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. She is a mathematical probabilist specializing in random matrix theory and its applications to other areas of mathematics, physics and statistics. She received her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2006 and received the American Institute of Mathematics five-year fellowship. She has also received funding from the Clay Institute of Mathematics, the Simons Foundation, and the US National Science Foundation. She is the author of twenty-two research papers in mathematics, as well as the textbook Linear Algebra (Cambridge, 2018), co-authored with Mark Meckes.