{ "id": "math-ph/0703043", "version": "v3", "published": "2007-03-13T17:04:41.000Z", "updated": "2007-10-28T22:08:36.000Z", "title": "Random matrices, non-backtracking walks, and orthogonal polynomials", "authors": [ "Sasha Sodin" ], "comment": "(more) minor changes", "journal": "J. Math. Phys. 48 (2007), no. 12", "doi": "10.1063/1.2819599", "categories": [ "math-ph", "math.MP", "math.SP" ], "abstract": "Several well-known results from the random matrix theory, such as Wigner's law and the Marchenko--Pastur law, can be interpreted (and proved) in terms of non-backtracking walks on a certain graph. Orthogonal polynomials with respect to the limiting spectral measure play a role in this approach.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2007-10-28T22:08:36.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "orthogonal polynomials", "non-backtracking walks", "random matrices", "random matrix theory", "limiting spectral measure play" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "AIP", "journal": "J. Math. Phys." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }