Large deviations for the largest eigenvalues and eigenvectors of spiked random matrices
Abstract
We consider matrices formed by a random matrix drawn from the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (or Gaussian Unitary Ensemble) plus a rank-one perturbation of strength , and focus on the largest eigenvalue, , and the component, , 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 and . Interestingly, for , in large deviations characterized by a small value of , i.e. , 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 eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors.
Cite
@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}
}