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Poisson convergence for the largest eigenvalues of Heavy Tailed Random Matrices

Probability 2008-05-07 v3

Abstract

We study the statistics of the largest eigenvalues of real symmetric and sample covariance matrices when the entries are heavy tailed. Extending the result obtained by Soshnikov in \cite{Sos1}, we prove that, in the absence of the fourth moment, the top eigenvalues behave, in the limit, as the largest entries of the matrix.

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@article{arxiv.0710.3132,
  title  = {Poisson convergence for the largest eigenvalues of Heavy Tailed Random Matrices},
  author = {Antonio Auffinger and Gerard Ben Arous and Sandrine Peche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3132},
  year   = {2008}
}

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22 pages, to appear in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare

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