Spectral radii of sparse random matrices

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Abstract: We establish bounds on the spectral radii for a large class of sparse random matrices, which includes the adjacency matrices of inhomogeneous ErdH{o}s-R'enyi graphs. Our error bounds are sharp for a large class of sparse random matrices. In particular, for the ErdH{o}s-R'enyi graph G(n,d/n), our results imply that the smallest and second-largest eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix converge to the edges of the support of the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution provided that dgglogn. Together with the companion paper [3], where we analyse the extreme eigenvalues in the complementary regime dlllogn, this establishes a crossover in the behaviour of the extreme eigenvalues around dsimlogn. Our results also apply to non-Hermitian sparse random matrices, corresponding to adjacency matrices of directed graphs. The proof combines (i) a new inequality between the spectral radius of a matrix and the spectral radius of its nonbacktracking version together with (ii) a new application of the method of moments for nonbacktracking matrices.




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