Fluctuations of eigenvalues and second order Poincaré inequalities

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Abstract: Linear statistics of eigenvalues in many familiar classes of random matrices are known to obey gaussian central limit theorems. The proofs of such results are usually rather difficult, involving hard computations specific to the model in question. In this article we attempt to formulate a unified technique for deriving such results via relatively soft arguments. In the process, we introduce a notion of `second order Poincar'e inequalities': just as ordinary Poincar'e inequalities give variance bounds, second order Poincar'e inequalities give central limit theorems. The proof of the main result employs Stein's method of normal approximation. A number of examples are worked out, some of which are new. One of the new results is a CLT for the spectrum of gaussian Toeplitz matrices.



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