Localization and delocalization for heavy tailed band matrices

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Abstract: We consider some random band matrices with band-width Nmu whose entries are independent random variables with distribution tail in xalpha. We consider the largest eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors and prove the following phase transition. On the one hand, when alphaextless2(1+mu1), the largest eigenvalues have order N(1+mu)/alpha, are asymptotically distributed as a Poisson process and their associated eigenvectors are essentially carried by two coordinates (this phenomenon has already been remarked by Soshnikov for full matrices with heavy tailed entries,i.e. when alphaextless2, and by Auffinger, Ben Arous and P{'e}ch{'e} when alphaextless4). On the other hand, when alphaextgreater2(1+mu1), the largest eigenvalues have order Nmu/2 and most eigenvectors of the matrix are delocalized, i.e. approximately uniformly distributed on their N coordinates.



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