The semicircle law for matrices with ergodic entries

Abstract: We study the empirical spectral distribution (ESD) of symmetric random matrices with ergodic entries on the diagonals. We observe that for entries with correlations that decay to 0, when the distance of the diagonal entries becomes large the limiting ESD is the well known semicircle law. If it does not decay to 0 (and have the same sign) the semicircle law cannot be the limit of the ESD. This is good agreement with results on exchangeable processes analysed in Friesen and L\"owe (2013a) and Hochst\"attler et al. (2016).