Persistence probabilities in centered, stationary, Gaussian processes in discrete time

Lower bounds for persistence probabilities of stationary Gaussian processes in discrete time are obtained under various conditions on the spectral measure of the process. Examples are given to show that the persistence probability can decay faster than exponentially. It is shown that if the spectral measure is not singular, then the exponent in the persistence probability cannot grow faster than quadratically. An example that appears (from numerical evidence) to achieve this lower bound is presented.Comment: 9 pages; To appear in a special volume of the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematic

The single ring theorem

We study the empirical measure $L_{A_n}$ of the eigenvalues of non-normal square matrices of the form $A_n=U_nD_nV_n$ with $U_n,V_n$ independent Haar distributed on the unitary group and $D_n$ real diagonal. We show that when the empirical measure of the eigenvalues of $D_n$ converges, and $D_n$ satisfies some technical conditions, $L_{A_n}$ converges towards a rotationally invariant measure on the complex plan whose support is a single ring. In particular, we provide a complete proof of Feinberg-Zee single ring theorem \cite{FZ}. We also consider the case where $U_n,V_n$ are independent Haar distributed on the orthogonal group.Comment: Correction of inadequate treatment of neighborhood of z=0 in original submission, various typos corrected following referee's remark