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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 288 - Probability and Statistics

Van Vu

UCSD

On random Bernoulli matrices II

Abstract:

We are going to investigate the determinant of $M(n)$, a random $(n by n)$ matrix with i.i.d. Bernoulli entries. In particular, we show that with high probability, the determinant (in absolute value) almost reaches Hadamard's upper bound. This talk continues the survey talk "On random Bernoulli matrices I", but no background is required. (Joint work with T. Tao).

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January 20, 2005

9:00 AM

AP&M 6438

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