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The eigenvalue density

Evaluation of the exact Page average › The eigenvalue density · lines 1702–1763

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Write . The squared singular values of have joint density proportional to

For completeness, the singular-value change of variables gives one factor from the unused column directions for each singular value. The two complex angular directions associated with a pair of distinct singular values give . The radial coordinates contribute . Integrating the angular variables leaves a constant independent of the . Repeated singular values form a set of Gaussian measure zero, so this change of variables determines the density.

Define generalized Laguerre polynomials by Rodrigues's formula

Integration by parts gives orthogonality with weight , and norm

Indeed, has leading coefficient ; it is orthogonal to every lower-degree polynomial, and integrating it against gives .

Replacing the monomials in the Vandermonde determinant by these polynomials changes only a nonzero constant. Expanding the squared determinant and integrating with orthogonality shows that the one-point eigenvalue density is

Its integral is . Therefore

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