| MEMBERS SEMINAR | |
| Topic: | Extreme Gaps in the Spectrum of Random Matrices |
| Speaker: | Gerard Arous |
| Affiliation: | Courant Institute, New York University |
| Date: | Monday, May 3 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
I will present a recent joint work with Paul Bourgade (Paris) about the extreme gaps between eigenvalues of random matrices. We give the joint limiting law of the smallest gaps for Haar-distributed unitary matrices and matrices from the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble. In particular, we show that the smallest gaps when rescaled by N^-4/3, are Poissonian and we give the limiting distribution of the k-th smallest gap. We also show that the largest gap, when normalized by log N/N, converges in Lp to a constant for all p > 0. These results are compared with the extreme gaps between zeros of the Riemann zeta function.