Given an orthogonally invariant probability measure on GL (d, R), Mike Shub asked whether the average product of the k top eigenvalues in the ensemble can be lower bounded by the average distortion along k dimensional Grassmanians. Recently, Armentano, Chinta, Sahi, and Shub provided partial progress, however they attach a constant c₃, ₊ 0 as d. In this paper, by invoking the Single Ring Theorem and sequels, we show the conjecture asymptotically for the spectral radius, in particular, c₃, ₊ 1 as d, and k = 1.
Joshua Paik (Fri,) studied this question.