Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

We study the spectral properties of matrices of long-range percolation model. These are N*N random real symmetric matrices H whose elements are independent random variables taking zero value with probability 1-\psi((i-j)/b), b\in \R^{+}, where \psi is an even positive function with \psi(t)<1 and vanishing at infinity. We show that under rather general conditions on the probability distribution of H(i,j) the semicircle law is valid for the ensemble we study in the limit N,b\to\infty. In the second part, we study the leading term of the correlation function of the resolvent G(z)=(H-z)^{-1} with large enough |Imz| in the limit N,b\to\infty, b=O(N^{\alpha}), 1/3<\alpha<1. We show that this leading term, when considered in the local spectral scale leads to an expression found earlier by other authors for band random matrix ensembles. This shows that the ensemble we study and that of band random matrices belong to the same class of spectral universality.