Symmetric Bernoulli determinant conjecture

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Let QnQ_n be the random symmetric matrix whose upper-diagonal entries are independent Bernoulli random variables. Symmetric determinant conjecture. Almost surely,

∣det⁡Qn∣=n(1/2+o(1))n.|\det Q_n|=n^{(1/2+o(1))n}.

This is the symmetric analogue of the determinant estimate for nonsymmetric Bernoulli matrices. The source notes that nonsingularity had recently been proved, but the sharp determinant asymptotic remained open there.

References

Primary source

V. Vu, “Random Discrete Matrices”, arXiv:math/0611321 (2006).

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