Universality of Random Matrices and Local Relaxation Flow

Abstract

We consider $N\times N$ symmetric random matrices where the probability distribution for each matrix element is given by a measure $\nu$ with a subexponential decay. We prove that the eigenvalue spacing statistics in the bulk of the spectrum for these matrices and for GOE are the same in the limit $N \to \infty$. Our approach is based on the study of the Dyson Brownian motion via a related new dynamics, the local relaxation flow.