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Consider a deterministic self-adjoint matrix X_n with spectral measure converging to a compactly supported probability measure, the largest and smallest eigenvalues converging to the edges of the limiting measure. We perturb this matrix by…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-09-05 Florent Benaych-Georges , Alice Guionnet , Mylène Maïda

Consider a $p$-dimensional population ${\mathbf x} \in\mathbb{R}^p$ with iid coordinates in the domain of attraction of a stable distribution with index $\alpha\in (0,2)$. Since the variance of ${\mathbf x}$ is infinite, the sample…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Johannes Heiny , Jianfeng Yao

We consider a spiked population model, proposed by Johnstone, whose population eigenvalues are all unit except for a few fixed eigenvalues. The question is to determine how the sample eigenvalues depend on the non-unit population ones when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Jinho Baik , Jack W. Silverstein

In \cite{Diaz} beta type I and II doubly singular distributions were introduced and their densities and the joint densities of nonzero eigenvalues were derived. In such matrix variate distributions $p$, the dimension of two singular Wishart…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Stepan Grinek

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

Eigenvalues of Wigner matrices has been a major topic of investigation. A particularly important subclass of such random matrices is formed by the adjacency matrix of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graph $\mathcal{G}_{n,p}$ equipped with i.i.d.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Shirshendu Ganguly , Ella Hiesmayr , Kyeongsik Nam

This paper investigates global and local laws for sample covariance matrices with general growth rates of dimensions. The sample size $N$ and population dimension $M$ can have the same order in logarithm, which implies that their ratio…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Bing-Yi Jing , Weiming Li , Jiahui Xie , Yangchun Zhang , Wang Zhou

In this paper we study an ensemble of random matrices called Elliptic Volatility Model, which arises in finance as models of stock returns. This model consists of a product of independent matrices $X = \Sigma Z $ where $Z$ is a $T$ by $S$…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Anna Maltsev , Svetlana Malysheva

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behaviors of the extreme eigenvectors in a general spiked covariance matrix, where the dimension and sample size increase proportionally. We eliminate the restrictive assumption of the block…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Zhangni Pu , Xiaozhuo Zhang , Jiang Hu , Zhidong Bai

A generalized spiked Fisher matrix is considered in this paper. We establish a criterion for the description of the support of the limiting spectral distribution of high-dimensional generalized Fisher matrix and study the almost sure limits…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Dandan Jiang , Jiang Hu , Zhiqiang Hou

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

Large H-selfadjoint random matrices are considered. The matrix $H$ is assumed to have one negative eigenvalue, hence the matrix in question has precisely one eigenvalue of nonpositive type. It is showed that this eigenvalue converges in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Michal Wojtylak

Consider the $n\times n$ matrix $X_n=A_n+H_n$, where $A_n$ is a $n\times n$ matrix (either deterministic or random) and $H_n$ is a $n\times n$ matrix independent from $A_n$ drawn from complex Ginibre ensemble. We study the limiting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Roman Sarapin

Consider the matrix $\Sigma_n = n^{-1/2} X_n D_n^{1/2} + P_n$ where the matrix $X_n \in \C^{N\times n}$ has Gaussian standard independent elements, $D_n$ is a deterministic diagonal nonnegative matrix, and $P_n$ is a deterministic matrix…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-23 Francois Chapon , Romain Couillet , Walid Hachem , Xavier Mestre

Let $\a$ be a real-valued random variable of mean zero and variance 1. Let $M_n(\a)$ denote the $n \times n$ random matrix whose entries are iid copies of $\a$ and $\sigma_n(M_n(\a))$ denote the least singular value of $M_n(\a)$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-04 Terence Tao , Van Vu

Let \{$X_{ij}$\}, $i,j=...,$ be a double array of i.i.d. complex random variables with $EX_{11}=0,E|X_{11}|^2=1$ and $E|X_{11}|^4<\infty$, and let $A_n=\frac{1}{N}T_n^{{1}/{2}}X_nX_n^*T_n^{{1}/{2}}$, where $T_n^{{1}/{2}}$ is the square root…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-08-22 Z. D. Bai , B. Q. Miao , G. M. Pan

We show that the empirical distribution of the eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix of certain random vectors (not necessarily independent entries) with bounded marginal $L^{4}$ norms converges weakly to a compound free Poisson…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-03 M. Boedihardjo

We establish a quantitative version of the Tracy--Widom law for the largest eigenvalue of high dimensional sample covariance matrices. To be precise, we show that the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue of a sample covariance matrix…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-21 Kevin Schnelli , Yuanyuan Xu

We study the estimation of the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ of a $p$-dimensional normal random vector based on $n$ independent observations corrupted by additive noise. Only a general nonparametric assumption is imposed on the distribution of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Denis Belomestny , Mathias Trabs , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

In this article, we establish a limiting distribution for eigenvalues of a class of auto-covariance matrices. The same distribution has been found in the literature for a regularized version of these auto-covariance matrices. The original…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Jianfeng Yao , Wangjun Yuan