Real eigenvalue statistics for products of asymmetric real Gaussian matrices

Abstract

Random matrices formed from i.i.d. standard real Gaussian entries have the feature that the expected number of real eigenvalues is non-zero. This property persists for products of such matrices, independently chosen, and moreover it is known that as the number of matrices in the product tends to infinity, the probability that all eigenvalues are real tends to unity. We quantify the distribution of the number of real eigenvalues for products of finite size real Gaussian matrices by giving an explicit Pfaffian formula for the probability that there are exactly k real eigenvalues as a determinant with entries involving particular Meijer G-functions. We also compute the explicit form of the Pfaf..