“…for i = 1, 2, it is often useful to let ϕ approximate an indicator function. In particular, allowing ϕ to depend on n, one can use Theorem 1.2 (along with the explicit formula for C 1.2 given in (2.15)) to obtain local laws which describe the mesoscopic behavior of the eigenvalues; such local laws have been established in the random matrix theory literature for a variety of ensembles, see [1,2,3,6,11,13,19,20,26,27,28,30,36,37,40,43,45,47,49,51,67,69,75,76,77] and references therein for a partial list of such results. We will use Theorem 1.2 to establish a rate of convergence for the empirical spectral measure of Toeplitz matrices subject to small random perturbations in Section 1.2.…”