Invitation to Random Tensors

Understand

This article is preface to the SIGMA special issue "Tensor Models, Formalism and Applications", http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/Tensor_Models.html.

• The issue is a collection of eight excellent, up to date reviews on random tensor models.
• The reviews combine pedagogical introductions meant for a general audience with presentations of the most recent developments in the field.
• This preface aims to give a condensed panoramic overview of random tensors as the natural generalization of random matrices to higher dimensions.