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What is the limiting spectral distribution of a uniformly random correlation matrix drawn from the elliptope as the dimension grows to infinity?

Related: Marchenko-Pastur law for Wishart matrices, Wigner semicircle law, Benaych-Georges and Nadler spiked correlation matrix results

A correlation matrix is a positive semidefinite matrix with ones on its diagonal, and the set of all such matrices of a given size is called the elliptope. When one draws a correlation matrix uniformly at random from this convex body in high dimensions, the eigenvalues form a random point cloud. The open problem is to determine whether this empirical spectral distribution converges weakly to a deterministic limit as dimension grows, and if so, to characterize that limiting measure explicitly in terms of a density or moment sequence.

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