2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/75125Let $Q_n$ denote a random symmetric $n$ by $n$ matrix, whose upper diagonal entries are i.i.d. Bernoulli random variables (which take values 0 and 1 with probability 1/2). We prove that $Q_n$ is non-singular with probability $1-O(n^{-1/8+δ})$ for any fixed $δ> 0$. The proof uses a quadratic version of Littlewood-Offord type results concerning the concentration functions of random variables and can be extended for more general models of random matrices.16 pages, no figures, submitted, Duke Math JProbability15A52Random symmetric matrices are almost surely non-singulartext