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Replica method for eigenvalues of real Wishart product matrices
by Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Jacob Zavatone-Veth |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202212_00021v1 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2023-03-07 |
| Date submitted: | 2022-12-08 20:16 |
| Submitted by: | Zavatone-Veth, Jacob |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We show how the replica method can be used to compute the asymptotic eigenvalue spectrum of a real Wishart product matrix. For unstructured factors, this provides a compact, elementary derivation of a polynomial condition on the Stieltjes transform first proved by M\"uller [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory. 48, 2086-2091 (2002)]. We then show how this computation can be extended to ensembles where the factors have correlated rows. Finally, we derive polynomial conditions on the average values of the minimum and maximum eigenvalues, which match the results obtained by Akemann, Ipsen, and Kieburg [Phys. Rev. E 88, 052118 (2013)] for the complex Wishart product ensemble.
Author comments upon resubmission
We hope that the referees agree that these changes have improved the readability of the paper, and both expanded and clarified the relevance of its results. We are happy to divert this manuscript to SciPost Physics Lecture Notes if the referees and the editor believe that a venue more focused on pedagogy than SciPost Physics Core would be more suitable, and have accordingly resubmitted it to that journal.
List of changes
In brief, we have:
- Added a new analysis of the bulk spectrum for ensembles with correlated rows. This computation is easily performed using the replica approach, further illustrating its utility. To our knowledge, this result has not previously been reported outside the depth-1 case (Burda et al., PRE 2005).
- Reorganized the manuscript to better separate background information from results.
- Expanded our discussions of related work and of the possible utility of the replica approach in obtaining results not previously established using rigorous methods.
- Made the requested notational changes, and added a section where we define our conventions.
Please see our detailed response letter, uploaded as a reply to the referees' comments, for a more detailed list of changes.
Published as SciPost Phys. Core 6, 026 (2023)