Total variation approximation of random orthogonal matrices by Gaussian matrices

DOI10.1007/S10959-019-00900-5MaRDI QIDQ2181628zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kathryn Stewart

Publication date 19 May 2020

Published in Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06641

zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremmomentsrandom orthogonal matrixWishart matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) (60B20) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05)

Abstract: The topic of this paper is the asymptotic distribution of random orthogonal matrices distributed according to Haar measure. We examine the total variation distance between the joint distribution of the entries of $W_n$, the $p_{n}imes{q}_n$ upper-left block of a Haar-distributed matrix, and that of $p_n{q}_n$ independent standard Gaussian random variables. We show that the total variation distance converges to zero when $p_n{q}_n=o(n)$.

Review text

Consider a random orthogonal matrix distributed according to the Haar measure on the orthogonal group \(\mathcal{O}(n)\), and let \(W_n\) be the \(p_n\times q_n\) upper left-hand block of such a matrix, for sequences \((p_n)\) and \((q_n)\) such that \(p_nq_n=o(n)\) as \(n\rightarrow\infty\). Letting \(X_n\) be a \(p_n\times q_n\) matrix of IID standard Gaussian random variables, the author shows that the total variation distance between \(\sqrt{n}W_n\) and \(X_n\) converges to zero as \(n\rightarrow\infty\). This result builds on previous work by \textit{P. Diaconis} and \textit{D. Freedman} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Probab. Stat. 23, Suppl., 397--423 (1987; Zbl 0619.60039)] and more recent work by \textit{T. Jiang} [Ann. Probab. 34, No. 4, 1497--1529 (2006; Zbl 1107.15018)].

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