Date
Tue, 13 May 2025
16:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Bence Borda
Organisation
University of Sussex

The Wasserstein metric originates in the theory of optimal transport, and among many other applications, it provides a natural way to measure how evenly distributed a finite point set is. We give a survey of classical and more recent results that describe the behaviour of some random point processes in Wasserstein metric, including the eigenvalues of some random matrix models, and explain the connection to the logarithm of the characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix. We also discuss a simple random walk model on the unit circle defined in terms of a quadratic irrational number, which turns out to be related to surprisingly deep arithmetic properties of real quadratic fields.

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