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Large deviations for the largest eigenvalues and eigenvectors of spiked random matrices

Probability 2019-04-04 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider matrices formed by a random N×NN\times N matrix drawn from the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (or Gaussian Unitary Ensemble) plus a rank-one perturbation of strength θ\theta, and focus on the largest eigenvalue, xx, and the component, uu, of the corresponding eigenvector in the direction associated to the rank-one perturbation. We obtain the large deviation principle governing the atypical joint fluctuations of xx and uu. Interestingly, for θ>1\theta>1, in large deviations characterized by a small value of uu, i.e. u<11/θu<1-1/\theta, the second-largest eigenvalue pops out from the Wigner semi-circle and the associated eigenvector orients in the direction corresponding to the rank-one perturbation. We generalize these results to the Wishart Ensemble, and we extend them to the first nn eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors.

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@article{arxiv.1904.01820,
  title  = {Large deviations for the largest eigenvalues and eigenvectors of spiked random matrices},
  author = {Giulio Biroli and Alice Guionnet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01820},
  year   = {2019}
}
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