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Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander D. Mirlin

We study the largest eigenvalue of a Gaussian random symmetric matrix $X_n$, with zero-mean, unit variance entries satisfying the condition $\sup_{(i, j) \ne (i', j')}|\mathbb{E}[X_{ij} X_{i'j'}]| = O(n^{-(1 + \varepsilon)})$, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Debapratim Banerjee , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Dipranjan Pal

We consider a class of sparse random matrices which includes the adjacency matrix of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $\mathcal{G}(N,p)$. We show that if $N^{\varepsilon} \leq Np \leq N^{1/3-\varepsilon}$ then all nontrivial eigenvalues away…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Yukun He , Antti Knowles

Complex eigenvalues of random matrices $J=\text{GUE }+ i\gamma \diag (1, 0, \ldots, 0)$ provide the simplest model for studying resonances in wave scattering from a quantum chaotic system via a single open channel. It is known that in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Yan V. Fyodorov , Boris A. Khoruzhenko , Mihail Poplavskyi

Under certain conditions on k we calculate the limit distribution of the k:th largest eigenvalue, x_k, of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE). More specifically, if n is the dimension of a random matrix from the GUE and k is such that both…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Jonas Gustavsson

We investigate the statistics of the largest eigenvalue, $\lambda_{\rm max}$, in an ensemble of $N\times N$ large ($N\gg 1$) sparse adjacency matrices, $A_N$. The most attention is paid to the distribution and typical fluctuations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Bogdan Slavov , Kirill Polovnikov , Sergei Nechaev , Nikita Pospelov

We present large deviations principles for the moments of the empirical spectral measure of Wigner matrices and empirical measure of $\beta$-ensembles in three cases : the case of Wigner matrices without Gaussian tails, that is Wigner…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Fanny Augeri

Let $\Lambda$ be the limiting smallest eigenvalue in the general (\beta, a)-Laguerre ensemble of random matrix theory. Here \beta>0, a >-1; for \beta=1,2,4 and integer a, this object governs the singular values of certain rank n Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-21 Jose A. Ramirez , Brian Rider , Ofer Zeitouni

We consider the exactly solvable model of exponential directed last passage percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ in the large deviation regime. Conditional on the upper tail large deviation event $\mathcal{U}_{\delta}:=\{T_{n}\geq (4+\delta)n\}$…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Riddhipratim Basu , Shirshendu Ganguly

We establish precise upper-tail asymptotics and large deviation principles for the rightmost eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ of Wigner matrices with sub-Gaussian entries. In contrast to the case of heavier tails, where deviations of $\lambda_1$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Nicholas A. Cook , Raphael Ducatez , Alice Guionnet

We consider the Gaussian beta-ensemble when $\beta$ scales with $n$ the number of particles such that $\displaystyle{{n}^{-1}\ll \beta\ll 1}$. Under a certain regime for $\beta$, we show that the largest particle satisfies a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Cambyse Pakzad

We are interested in two random matrix ensembles related to permutations: the ensemble of permutation matrices following Ewens' distribution of a given parameter $\theta >0$, and its modification where entries equal to $1$ in the matrices…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Valentin Bahier

We consider some random band matrices with band-width $N^\mu$ whose entries are independent random variables with distribution tail in $x^{-\alpha}$. We consider the largest eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors and prove the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Florent Benaych-Georges , Sandrine Péché

In this paper, we investigate and develop a new approach to the numerical analysis and characterization of random fluctuations with heavy-tailed probability distribution function (PDF), such as turbulent heat flow and solar flare…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-22 Mohsen Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi , Abbas Nakhlband

The eigenvalue density for members of the Gaussian orthogonal and unitary ensembles follows the Wigner semi-circle law. If the Gaussian entries are all shifted by a constant amount c/Sqrt(2N), where N is the size of the matrix, in the large…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-21 Kevin E. Bassler , Peter J. Forrester , Norman E. Frankel

The probability distribution of the maximum $M_t$ of a single resetting Brownian motion (RBM) of duration $t$ and resetting rate $r$, properly centred and scaled, is known to converge to the standard Gumbel distribution of the classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-19 Alexander K. Hartmann , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

In this paper we focus on the finite n probability distribution function of the largest eigenvalue in the classical Gaussian Ensemble of n by n matrices (GEn). We derive the finite n largest eigenvalue probability distribution function for…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-28 Leonard N. Choup

Given a large, high-dimensional sample from a spiked population, the top sample covariance eigenvalue is known to exhibit a phase transition. We show that the largest eigenvalues have asymptotic distributions near the phase transition in…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Alex Bloemendal , Bálint Virág

Let $G=G(n,p_n)$ be a homogeneous Erd\"os-R\'enyi graph, and $A$ its adjacency matrix with eigenvalues $\lambda_1(A) \geq \lambda_2(A) \geq ... \geq \lambda_n(A).$ Local laws have been used to show that $lambda_2(A)$ can exhibit…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Simona Diaconu

We consider a Wigner matrix $A$ with entries tail decaying as $x^{-\alpha}$ with $2<\alpha<4$ for large $x$ and study fluctuations of linear statistics $N^{-1}\operatorname{Tr}\varphi(A)$. The behavior of such fluctuations has been…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Florent Benaych-Georges , Anna Maltsev