Condition Numbers of Indefinite Rank 2 Ghost Wishart Matrices
Statistics Theory
2015-12-21 v1 Probability
Quantum Physics
Statistics Theory
Abstract
We define an indefinite Wishart matrix as a matrix of the form A=W^{T}W\Sigma, where \Sigma is an indefinite diagonal matrix and W is a matrix of independent standard normals. We focus on the case where W is L by 2 which has engineering applications. We obtain the distribution of the ratio of the eigenvalues of A. This distribution can be "folded" to give the distribution of the condition number. We calculate formulas for W real (\beta=1), complex (\beta=2), quaternionic (\beta=4) or any ghost 0<\beta<\infty. We then corroborate our work by comparing them against numerical experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1207.3062,
title = {Condition Numbers of Indefinite Rank 2 Ghost Wishart Matrices},
author = {Ramis Movassagh and Alan Edelman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3062},
year = {2015}
}
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10 pages, 13 figures