Solution

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The difference of the two eigenvalues is , hence . Its expectation is
For , put . The set of angles satisfying consists of , and , of total length . Thus the full cumulative distribution function is
Differentiating on gives the probability density function
This is the arcsine distribution, equivalently the beta distribution with both parameters . It has no atoms at either endpoint.

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