Products of Independent Gaussian Random Matrices

Abstract

This thesis reviews recent progress on products of random matrices from the perspective of exactly solved Gaussian random matrix models. We derive exact formulae for the correlation functions for the eigen- and singular values at arbitrary matrix dimension and for an arbitrary number of factors. These exact results are used to study asymptotic limits for the macroscopic densities and the microscopic correlations as either the matrix dimension or the number of factors tends to infinity.