Tracy-Widom distribution for the largest eigenvalue of real sample covariance matrices with general population

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Abstract: We consider sample covariance matrices of the form mathcalQ=(Sigma1/2X)(Sigma1/2X), where the sample X is an MimesN random matrix whose entries are real independent random variables with variance 1/N and where Sigma is an MimesM positive-definite deterministic matrix. We analyze the asymptotic fluctuations of the largest rescaled eigenvalue of mathcalQ when both M and N tend to infinity with N/Modin(0,infty). For a large class of populations Sigma in the sub-critical regime, we show that the distribution of the largest rescaled eigenvalue of mathcalQ is given by the type-1 Tracy-Widom distribution under the additional assumptions that (1) either the entries of X are i.i.d. Gaussians or (2) that Sigma is diagonal and that the entries of X have a subexponential decay.




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