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This is an introductory chapter on the role of random matrices (RM) for the analysis of systems which involve a large number of components or some randomness. In this context, one mainly deals with two different kinds of problems:
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the statistics of the eigenvalues of matrices whose elements are extracted according to some probabilistic rules;
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products of random matrices (PRM).
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Crisanti, A., Paladin, G., Vulpiani, A. (1993). Why Study Random Matrices?. In: Products of Random Matrices. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84942-8_1
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