Universality of random matrices and local relaxation flow

Consider the Dyson Brownian motion with parameter β, where β=1,2,4 corresponds to the eigenvalue flows for the eigenvalues of symmetric, hermitian and quaternion self-dual ensembles. For any β≥1, we prove that the relaxation time to local equilibrium for the Dyson Brownian motion is bounded above by N ^−ζ for some ζ>0. The proof is based on an estimate of the entropy flow of the Dyson Brownian motion w.r.t. a “pseudo equilibrium measure”. As an application of this estimate, we prove that the eigenvalue spacing statistics in the bulk of the spectrum for N×N symmetric Wigner ensemble is the same as that of the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE) in the limit N→∞. The assumptions on the probability distribution of the matrix elements of the Wigner ensemble are a subexponential decay and some minor restriction on the support.