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Large deviations of the extreme eigenvalues of random deformations of matrices

Probability 2011-06-21 v3

Abstract

Consider a real diagonal deterministic matrix XnX_n of size nn with spectral measure converging to a compactly supported probability measure. We perturb this matrix by adding a random finite rank matrix, with delocalized eigenvectors. We show that the joint law of the extreme eigenvalues of the perturbed model satisfies a large deviation principle in the scale nn, with a good rate function given by a variational formula. We tackle both cases when the extreme eigenvalues of XnX_n converge to the edges of the support of the limiting measure and when we allow some eigenvalues of XnX_n, that we call outliers, to converge out of the bulk. We can also generalise our results to the case when XnX_n is random, with law proportional to enTraceV(X)\udX,e^{- n Trace V(X)}\ud X, for VV growing fast enough at infinity and any perturbation of finite rank.

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@article{arxiv.1009.0135,
  title  = {Large deviations of the extreme eigenvalues of random deformations of matrices},
  author = {Florent Benaych-Georges and Alice Guionnet and Mylène Maïda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0135},
  year   = {2011}
}

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