# Lectures on the local semicircle law for Wigner matrices

Abstract : These notes provide an introduction to the local semicircle law from random matrix theory, as well as some of its applications. We focus on Wigner matrices, Hermitian random matrices with independent upper-triangular entries with zero expectation and constant variance. We state and prove the local semicircle law, which says that the eigenvalue distribution of a Wigner matrix is close to Wigner's semicircle distribution, down to spectral scales containing slightly more than one eigenvalue. This local semicircle law is formulated using the Green function, whose individual entries are controlled by large deviation bounds. We then discuss three applications of the local semicircle law: first, complete delocalization of the eigenvectors, stating that with high probability the eigenvectors are approximately flat; second, rigidity of the eigenvalues, giving large deviation bounds on the locations of the individual eigenvalues; third, a comparison argument for the local eigenvalue statistics in the bulk spectrum, showing that the local eigenvalue statistics of two Wigner matrices coincide provided the first four moments of their entries coincide. We also sketch further applications to eigenvalues near the spectral edge, and to the distribution of eigenvectors.
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MAP5 2016-05. 2016
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• HAL Id : hal-01258444, version 1
• ARXIV : 1601.04055

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Florent Benaych-Georges, Antti Knowles. Lectures on the local semicircle law for Wigner matrices. MAP5 2016-05. 2016. <hal-01258444>

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