Spectrum of Lévy-Khintchine random Laplacian matrices

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Abstract: We consider the spectrum of random Laplacian matrices of the form Ln=AnDn where An is a real symmetric random matrix and Dn is a diagonal matrix whose entries are equal to the corresponding row sums of An. If An is a Wigner matrix with entries in the domain of attraction of a Gaussian distribution the empirical spectral measure of Ln is known to converge to the free convolution of a semicircle distribution and a standard real Gaussian distribution. We consider real symmetric random matrices An with independent entries (up to symmetry) whose row sums converge to a purely non-Gaussian infinitely divisible distribution, which fall into the class of L'evy-Khintchine random matrices first introduced by Jung [Trans Am Math Soc, extbf{370}, (2018)]. Our main result shows that the empirical spectral measure of Ln converges almost surely to a deterministic limit. A key step in the proof is to use the purely non-Gaussian nature of the row sums to build a random operator to which Ln converges in an appropriate sense. This operator leads to a recursive distributional equation uniquely describing the Stieltjes transform of the limiting empirical spectral measure.



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