Large deviations of the maximum eigenvalue in Wishart random matrices

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Published 30 March 2007 2007 IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Pierpaolo Vivo et al 2007 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 4317 DOI 10.1088/1751-8113/40/16/005

1751-8121/40/16/4317

Abstract

We analytically compute the probability of large fluctuations to the left of the mean of the largest eigenvalue in the Wishart (Laguerre) ensemble of positive definite random matrices. We show that the probability that all the eigenvalues of a (N × N) Wishart matrix W = XTX (where X is a rectangular M × N matrix with independent Gaussian entries) are smaller than the mean value ⟨λ⟩ = N/c decreases for large N as , where β = 1, 2 corresponds respectively to real and complex Wishart matrices, c = N/M ⩽ 1 and Φ(x; c) is a rate (sometimes also called large deviation) function that we compute explicitly. The result for the anti-Wishart case (M < N) simply follows by exchanging M and N. We also analytically determine the average spectral density of an ensemble of Wishart matrices whose eigenvalues are constrained to be smaller than a fixed barrier. Numerical simulations are in excellent agreement with the analytical predictions.

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