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Circular law for random discrete matrices of given row sum

Combinatorics 2012-03-28 v1 Probability

Abstract

Let MnM_n be a random matrix of size n×nn\times n and let λ1,...,λn\lambda_1,...,\lambda_n be the eigenvalues of MnM_n. The empirical spectral distribution μMn\mu_{M_n} of MnM_n is defined as \mu_{M_n}(s,t)=\frac{1}{n}# \{k\le n, \Re(\lambda_k)\le s; \Im(\lambda_k)\le t\}. The circular law theorem in random matrix theory asserts that if the entries of MnM_n are i.i.d. copies of a random variable with mean zero and variance σ2\sigma^2, then the empirical spectral distribution of the normalized matrix 1σnMn\frac{1}{\sigma\sqrt{n}}M_n of MnM_n converges almost surely to the uniform distribution μ\cir\mu_\cir over the unit disk as nn tends to infinity. In this paper we show that the empirical spectral distribution of the normalized matrix of MnM_n, a random matrix whose rows are independent random (1,1)(-1,1) vectors of given row-sum ss with some fixed integer ss satisfying s(1o(1))n|s|\le (1-o(1))n, also obeys the circular law. The key ingredient is a new polynomial estimate on the least singular value of MnM_n.

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@article{arxiv.1203.5941,
  title  = {Circular law for random discrete matrices of given row sum},
  author = {Hoi H. Nguyen and Van Vu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5941},
  year   = {2012}
}
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