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Local semicircle law under fourth moment condition

Probability 2019-04-19 v1 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We consider a random symmetric matrix X=[Xjk]j,k=1n{\bf X} = [X_{jk}]_{j,k=1}^n with upper triangular entries being independent random variables with mean zero and unit variance. Assuming that maxjkEXjk4+δ<,δ>0\max_{jk} {\mathbb E} |X_{jk}|^{4+\delta} < \infty, \delta > 0, it was proved in [G\"otze, Naumov and Tikhomirov, Bernoulli, 2018] that with high probability the typical distance between the Stieltjes transforms mn(z),z=u+ivm_n(z), z = u + i v, of the empirical spectral distribution (ESD) and the Stieltjes transforms msc(z)m_{sc}(z) of the semicircle law is of order (nv)1logn(nv)^{-1} \log n. The aim of this paper is to remove δ>0\delta>0 and show that this result still holds if we assume that maxjkEXjk4<\max_{jk} {\mathbb E} |X_{jk}|^{4} < \infty. We also discuss applications to the rate of convergence of the ESD to the semicircle law in the Kolmogorov distance, rates of localization of the eigenvalues around the classical positions and rates of delocalization of eigenvectors.

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@article{arxiv.1904.08723,
  title  = {Local semicircle law under fourth moment condition},
  author = {Friedrich Götze and Alexey Naumov and Alexander Tikhomirov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08723},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

to appear in Journal of Theoretical Probability; 28 pages

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