Preservation of splitting families and cardinal characteristics of the continuum

We show how to construct, via forcing, splitting families that are preserved by a certain type of finite support iterations. As an application, we construct a model where 15 classical characteristics of the continuum are pairwise different, concretely: the 10 (non-dependent) entries in Cichoń’s diagram, $$\mathfrak{m}$$ m (2-Knaster), $$\mathfrak{p}$$ p , $$\mathfrak{h}$$ h , the splitting number $$\mathfrak{s}$$ s and the reaping number $$\mathfrak{r}$$ r .

Surjectivity of near-square random matrices

We show that a nearly square independent and identically distributed random integral matrix is surjective over the integral lattice with very high probability. This answers a question by Koplewitz [6]. Our result extends to sparse matrices as well as to matrices of dependent entries.

A Renormalisation Group Approach to the Universality of Wigner’s Semicircle Law for Random Matrices with Dependent Entries

We show that if the non-Gaussian part of the cumulants of a random matrix model obeys some scaling bounds in the size of the matrix, then Wigner’s semicircle law holds. This result is derived using the replica technique and an analogue of the renormalisation group equation for the replica effective action.