Gaussian fluctuations for linear spectral statistics of large random covariance matrices

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DOI10.1214/15-AAP1135zbMATH Open1408.60011arXiv1309.3728OpenAlexW1639175092MaRDI QIDQ303975FDOQ303975


Authors: Jamal Najim, Jian-Feng Yao Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 23 August 2016

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider a Nimesn matrix Sigman=frac1sqrtnRn1/2Xn, where Rn is a nonnegative definite Hermitian matrix and Xn is a random matrix with i.i.d. real or complex standardized entries. The fluctuations of the linear statistics of the eigenvalues [operatorname {Trace}f �igl(Sigma_nSigma_n^*�igr)=sum_{i=1}^Nf(lambda_i),qquad (lambda_i) eigenvalues of Sigma_nSigma_n^*,] are shown to be Gaussian, in the regime where both dimensions of matrix Sigman go to infinity at the same pace and in the case where f is of class C3, that is, has three continuous derivatives. The main improvements with respect to Bai and Silverstein's CLT [Ann. Probab. 32 (2004) 553-605] are twofold: First, we consider general entries with finite fourth moment, but whose fourth cumulant is nonnull, that is, whose fourth moment may differ from the moment of a (real or complex) Gaussian random variable. As a consequence, extra terms proportional to and appear in the limiting variance and in the limiting bias, which not only depend on the spectrum of matrix Rn but also on its eigenvectors. Second, we relax the analyticity assumption over f by representing the linear statistics with the help of Helffer-Sj"{o}strand's formula. The CLT is expressed in terms of vanishing L'{e}vy-Prohorov distance between the linear statistics' distribution and a Gaussian probability distribution, the mean and the variance of which depend upon N and n and may not converge.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3728




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