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We study subgraphs of Paley graphs of prime order $p$ induced on the sets of vertices extending a given independent set of size $a$ to a larger independent set. Using a sufficient condition proved in the author's recent companion work, we…

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We investigate joint spectral characteristics of a family of matrices $\mathcal F $, associated with products in the semigroup generated by $\mathcal F$. In the literature, extremal measures such as the well-known joint spectral radius and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Francesco Paolo Maiale , Anastasiia Trofimova , Nicola Guglielmi

In nature or societies, the power-law is present ubiquitously, and then it is important to investigate the mathematical characteristics of power-laws in the recent era of big data. In this paper we prove the superposition of non-identical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Masaru Shintani , Ken Umeno

We develop a new method for deriving local laws for a large class of random matrices. It is applicable to many matrix models built from sums and products of deterministic or independent random matrices. In particular, it may be used to…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Antti Knowles , Jun Yin

Dynamical systems with $\epsilon$ small random perturbations appear in both continuous mechanical motions and discrete stochastic chemical kinetics. The present work provides a detailed analysis of the central limit theorem (CLT), with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Yu-Chen Cheng , Hong Qian

In this paper, we consider a data matrix $X\in\mathbb{C}^{N\times M}$ where all the columns are i.i.d. samples being $N$ dimensional complex Gaussian of mean zero and covariance $\Sigma\in\mathbb{C}^{N\times N}$. Here the population matrix…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-19 Dai Shi

We consider the sparse stochastic block model in the case where the degrees are uninformative. The case where the two communities have approximately the same size has been extensively studied and we concentrate here on the community…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Francesco Caltagirone , Marc Lelarge , Léo Miolane

We study the adjacency matrices of random $d$-regular graphs with large but fixed degree $d$. In the bulk of the spectrum $[-2\sqrt{d-1}+\varepsilon, 2\sqrt{d-1}-\varepsilon]$ down to the optimal spectral scale, we prove that the Green's…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Roland Bauerschmidt , Jiaoyang Huang , Horng-Tzer Yau

We present a new approach, based on graphon theory, to finding the limiting spectral distributions of general Wigner-type matrices. This approach determines the moments of the limiting measures and the equations of their Stieltjes…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Yizhe Zhu

In the setting of generic $\beta$-ensembles, we use the loop equation hierarchy to prove a local law with optimal error up to a constant, valid on any scale including microscopic. This local law has the following consequences. (i) The…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Paul Bourgade , Krishnan Mody , Michel Pain

The classical infinite divisibility of distributions related to eigenvalues of some random matrix ensembles is investigated. It is proved that the $\beta$-Tracy-Widom distribution, which is the limiting distribution of the largest…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-13 J. Armando Domínguez-Molina

The interaction between transitivity and sparsity, two common features in empirical networks, implies that there are local regions of large sparse networks that are dense. We call this the blessing of transitivity and it has consequences…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-02 Karl Rohe , Tai Qin

We consider sparse inhomogeneous Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph ensembles where edges are connected independently with probability $p_{ij}$. We assume that $p_{ij}= \varepsilon_N f(w_i, w_j)$ where $(w_i)_{i\ge 1}$ is a sequence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Luca Avena , Rajat Subhra Hazra , Nandan Malhotra

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

We extend the approach from [arXiv:2110.15301] to prove windowed spectral projection estimates and a generalized Weyl law for the (Weyl) quantized baker's map on the torus. The spectral window is allowed to shrink in the semiclassical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Laura Shou

We consider the stochastic block model where connection between vertices is perturbed by some latent (and unobserved) random geometric graph. The objective is to prove that spectral methods are robust to this type of noise, even if they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sandrine Peche , Vianney Perchet

We consider random $n\times n$ matrices $X$ with independent and centered entries and a general variance profile. We show that the spectral radius of $X$ converges with very high probability to the square root of the spectral radius of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Johannes Alt , Laszlo Erdos , Torben Krüger

The paper discusses a statistical problem related to testing for differences between two sparse networks with community structures. The community-wise edge probability matrices have entries of order $O(n^{-1}/\log n)$, where $n$ represents…

Applications · Statistics 2023-04-04 Qianyong Wu , Jiang Hu

We prove that the free energy of the log-gamma polymer between lattice points $(1,1)$ and $(M,N)$ converges to the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution in the $M^{1/3}$ scaling, provided that $N/M$ remains bounded away from zero and infinity. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Guillaume Barraquand , Ivan Corwin , Evgeni Dimitrov

This article develops limit laws for network sampling based estimates of subgraph counts and clustering coefficient of a large population network, and uses them for predictive inference. A model based approach is used, where the population…

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