Local semicircle law with imprimitive variance matrix
@article{ECP3121, author = {Oskari Ajanki and Lászlo Erdős and Torben Krüger}, title = {Local semicircle law with imprimitive variance matrix}, journal = {Electron. Commun. Probab.}, fjournal = {Electronic Communications in Probability}, volume = {19}, year = {2014}, keywords = {generalised Wigner matrices; generalised random sample covariance matrices; hard edge; local semicircle law}, abstract = {We extend the proof of the local semicircle law for generalized Wigner matrices given in MR3068390 to the case when the matrix of variances has an eigenvalue $-1$. In particular, this result provides a short proof of the optimal local Marchenko-Pastur law at the hard edge (i.e. around zero) for sample covariance matrices $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{X}}^\ast \boldsymbol{\mathrm{X}} $, where the variances of the entries of $ \boldsymbol{\mathrm{X}} $ may vary.
}, pages = {no. 33, 1-9}, issn = {1083-589X}, doi = {10.1214/ECP.v19-3121}, url = {http://ecp.ejpecp.org/article/view/3121}}