%0 Journal Article %T Interior eigenvalue density of Jordan matrices with random perturbations %A Johannes Sjoestrand %A Martin Vogel %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X We study the eigenvalue distribution of a large Jordan block subject to a small random Gaussian perturbation. A result by E.B. Davies and M. Hager shows that as the dimension of the matrix gets large, with probability close to $1$, most of the eigenvalues are close to a circle. We study the expected eigenvalue density of the perturbed Jordan block in the interior of that circle and give a precise asymptotic description. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2230v1