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The spectra of random abelian G-circulant matrices

Probability 2012-08-17 v2

Abstract

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of random abelian G-circulant matrices, that is, matrices whose structure is related to a finite abelian group G in a way that naturally generalizes the relationship between circulant matrices and cyclic groups. It is shown that, under mild conditions, when the size of the group G goes to infinity, the spectral measures of such random matrices approach a deterministic limit. Depending on some aspects of the structure of the groups, whether the matrices are constrained to be Hermitian, and a few details of the distributions of the matrix entries, the limit measure is either a (complex or real) Gaussian distribution or a mixture of two Gaussian distributions.

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@article{arxiv.1109.5675,
  title  = {The spectra of random abelian G-circulant matrices},
  author = {Mark W. Meckes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.5675},
  year   = {2012}
}