Motivated by the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, Friedman and Washington studied the distribution of the cokernels of random matrices over the ring of p-adic integers. This has been generalized in many directions, as well as some applications to the distribution of random algebraic objects. In this talk, first we give an overview of random matrix theory over the ring of p-adic integers, together with their connections to conjectures in number theory. After that, we investigate the distribution of the cokernels of random p-adic matrices with given zero entries. The second part of this talk is based on work in progress with Gilyoung Cheong, Dong Yeap Kang and Myungjun Yu.
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