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Statistics of spectral properties of matrix-valued random variables.

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What does $\mathbb E_V \max_{x \in V,\,\|x\|=1} x^T Ax$ evaluate to when $V$ is random $k$-d...

Let $G_{k,n}$ be the grassmannian of $k$-dimensional vector spaces of $\mathbb R^n$. By the Courant–Fisher characterization, the $k$th largest eigenvalue of an $n \times n$ psd matrix $A$ is given by …
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Limiting value of expectation of trace of exponential of Wishart matrix

Let $X$ be an $n \times d$ random matrix with iid entries from $N(0, 1/d)$. Let $S:=X^\top X/n$, a $d \times d$ Wishart matrix and let $T = e^{S} := \sum_{k=0}^\infty \dfrac{S^k}{k!}$ be its exponent …
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Asymptotic limit of trace of random matrix $(aI_m + WW^\top)^{-1}$, where $W$ has iid rows f...

Let $m$ and $d$ be positive integers with $m,d \to \infty$ such that $m/d \to \rho \in (0,\infty)$. Let $W$ be a random $m \times d$ matrix with iid rows $w_1,\ldots,w_m \sim N(0,\Sigma)$ for a positi …
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Using Kac-Rice formula to count average number of sub-regions carved out by $n$ random hyper...

Context. This is the first in a set of tiny pieces of a problem I've formulated to help me measure the "complexity" of certain piecewise linear functions. Thanks in advance for your help and patien …
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Using linearization trick (free probability) to compute limiting singular-value density of $...

Disclaimer. I only started learning the subject of free probability $1$ day ago, and I'm still trying to absorb the fundamentals, while applying them to my own specific problems arizing in the spectra …
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General formula for the integral w.r.t to Marchenko-Pastur density, of the ratio of degree $...

Question. Is there a closed-form formula (via standard objects like rational functions, radicals, special functions, special numbers like Catalan numbers, etc.) expressing integrals of rational functi …
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Use statistical physics ideas ("replica trick") to compute asymptotic value of $\inf_{\|w\| ...

I'm trying to get my head around the "replica trick" and it's mathematically rigorous formulations (due to Talagrand, Parchenko, etc.). I was wondering to myself that a solution or insight for the pro …
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Expectation of angle between two vectors in the image of a gaussian random matrix

Let $m$ and $n$ be large positive integers (going to infinity), and let $W$ be a random matrix of size $n \times m$ with iid entries from $N(0,1/m)$. Let $x,y \in \mathbb R^m$ be deterministic vectors …
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Upper-bound for eigenvalues of $E [UU^T]$, where $U$ is uniformly distributed on the unit $n...

Let $X$ be a $\sigma$-subGaussian random vector on $\mathbb R^n$ (for large $n \ge 3$), meaning that the random variable $X^Tv$ is $\sigma$-subGaussian for every unit vector $v \in \mathbb R^n$. Consi …
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Explaning why the spectrum of a setting simple structure random matrix is always spiked ($d-...

For concreteness, let $m=500$, $d=600$, $N=1000$. Let $W$ be and $d \times m$ matrix with unit-norm rows and let $u$ be a uni-norm vector of length $m$. Given a binary vector $b$ of length $m$, length …
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Concentration inequality for norm of solution to nonlinear least-squares problem

Define the piecewise-linear function $\psi(t):=\max(t,0)$ for all $t \in \mathbb R$. Let $d,n,k \to \infty$ at the same rate (i.e $n \asymp k \asymp d$). Let $y_1,\ldots,y_n \in \{-1,1\}$ uniformly …
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Limiting distribution of "scatter matrix" $\frac{1}{n}XX^T:=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^nx_ix_i^T$...

Let $x_1,\ldots,x_n$ be drawn iid from such "nice" distribution on $\mathbb R^p$ (but possibly very general!), and let $X$ be the $n$-by-$p$ matrix formed by vertically stacking the $x_i$'s. Quest …
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Spectral approximation of $(XX^\top/d)\circ(X\Sigma_dX^\top/d)$ where $X$ is an $n \times d$...

Let $X \in \mathbb R^{n \times d}$ be a random matrix with iid rows from $N(0,\Sigma_d)$ where $\Sigma_d$ is a $d \times d$ psd matrix verifying w.h.p, $\mbox{trace}(\Sigma_d/d)= 1$. $\|\Sigma_d\|_{o …
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Prove / disprove: If $1 \le n < N$ and $A$ is an $N \times n$ matrix with iid from $\mathcal...

Let $1 \le n < N$ be integers and $A$ be a random $N\times n$ matrix with iid entries from $\mathcal N(0,1)$. This paper (Rudelson and Vershynin) claims in the paragraph just before formula (3.4) tha …
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For fixed $\lambda \ge 0$, Integrate the function $f_\lambda(x):=x/(x + \lambda)^2$ w.r.t. M...

In trying to solve another the problem posed in the question https://www.mathoverflow.net/q/385777/78539, I'm led to consider the following problem. Let $\mu_\gamma$ be the Marchenko-Pastur distributi …
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