Four-root-of-unity anti-concentration conjecture

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Let ξ1,ξ2,ξ3,ξ4\xi_1,\xi_2,\xi_3,\xi_4 be independent random variables, each uniformly distributed on the set of nnth roots of unity.

Four-root-of-unity anti-concentration conjecture. As nn\to\infty,

P(Re(ξ1+ξ2+ξ3+ξ4)<1n2)=1n2+o(1).\mathbb{P}\left(\left|\operatorname{Re}(\xi_1+\xi_2+\xi_3+\xi_4)\right|<\frac{1}{n^2}\right)=\frac{1}{n^{2+o(1)}}.

The conjecture is presented as an obstacle to proving regularity of the unperturbed eigenvalues without uniform boundary conditions. The source gives no resolution, so its status remains open.

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Primary source

András Mészáros and Bálint Virág, “Eigenvectors of the square grid plus GUE”, arXiv:2212.09614 (2023).

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