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The auto-cross covariance matrix is defined as [mathbf{M}_n=frac{1} {2T}sum_{j=1}^Tbigl(mathbf{e}_jmathbf{e}_{j+tau}^*+mathbf{e}_{j+ tau}mathbf{e}_j^*bigr),] where $mathbf{e}_j$s are $n$-dimensional vectors of independent standard complex components with a common mean 0, variance $sigma^2$, and uniformly bounded $2+eta$th moments and $tau$ is the lag. Jin et al. [Ann. Appl. Probab. 24 (2014) 1199-1225] has proved that the LSD of $mathbf{M}_n$ exists uniquely and nonrandomly, and independent of $tau$ for all $tauge 1$. And in addition they gave an analytic expression of the LSD. As a continuation of Jin et al. [Ann. Appl. Probab. 24 (2014) 1199-1225], this paper proved that under the condition of uniformly bounded fourth moments, in any closed interval outside the support of the LSD, with probability 1 there will be no eigenvalues of $mathbf{M}_n$ for all large $n$. As a consequence of the main theorem, the limits of the largest and smallest eigenvalue of $mathbf{M}_n$ are also obtained.
We introduce a new random matrix model called distance covariance matrix in this paper, whose normalized trace is equivalent to the distance covariance. We first derive a deterministic limit for the eigenvalue distribution of the distance covariance matrix when the dimensions of the vectors and the sample size tend to infinity simultaneously. This limit is valid when the vectors are independent or weakly dependent through a finite-rank perturbation. It is also universal and independent of the details of the distributions of the vectors. Furthermore, the top eigenvalues of this distance covariance matrix are shown to obey an exact phase transition when the dependence of the vectors is of finite rank. This finding enables the construction of a new detector for such weak dependence where classical methods based on large sample covariance matrices or sample canonical correlations may fail in the considered high-dimensional framework.
Consider two $p$-variate populations, not necessarily Gaussian, with covariance matrices $Sigma_1$ and $Sigma_2$, respectively, and let $S_1$ and $S_2$ be the sample covariances matrices from samples of the populations with degrees of freedom $T$ and $n$, respectively. When the difference $Delta$ between $Sigma_1$ and $Sigma_2$ is of small rank compared to $p,T$ and $n$, the Fisher matrix $F=S_2^{-1}S_1$ is called a {em spiked Fisher matrix}. When $p,T$ and $n$ grow to infinity proportionally, we establish a phase transition for the extreme eigenvalues of $F$: when the eigenvalues of $Delta$ ({em spikes}) are above (or under) a critical value, the associated extreme eigenvalues of the Fisher matrix will converge to some point outside the support of the global limit (LSD) of other eigenvalues; otherwise, they will converge to the edge points of the LSD. Furthermore, we derive central limit theorems for these extreme eigenvalues of the spiked Fisher matrix. The limiting distributions are found to be Gaussian if and only if the corresponding population spike eigenvalues in $Delta$ are {em simple}. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the finite sample performance of the results. In addition to classical applications of a Fisher matrix in high-dimensional data analysis, we propose a new method for the detection of signals allowing an arbitrary covariance structure of the noise. Simulation experiments are conducted to illustrate the performance of this detector.
The consistency and asymptotic normality of the spatial sign covariance matrix with unknown location are shown. Simulations illustrate the different asymptotic behavior when using the mean and the spatial median as location estimator.
Let $bY =bR+bX$ be an $Mtimes N$ matrix, where $bR$ is a rectangular diagonal matrix and $bX$ consists of $i.i.d.$ entries. This is a signal-plus-noise type model. Its signal matrix could be full rank, which is rarely studied in literature compared with the low rank cases. This paper is to study the extreme eigenvalues of $bYbY^*$. We show that under the high dimensional setting ($M/Nrightarrow cin(0,1]$) and some regularity conditions on $bR$ the rescaled extreme eigenvalue converges in distribution to Tracy-Widom distribution ($TW_1$).
We consider general high-dimensional spiked sample covariance models and show that their leading sample spiked eigenvalues and their linear spectral statistics are asymptotically independent when the sample size and dimension are proportional to each other. As a byproduct, we also establish the central limit theorem of the leading sample spiked eigenvalues by removing the block diagonal assumption on the population covariance matrix, which is commonly needed in the literature. Moreover, we propose consistent estimators of the $L_4$ norm of the spiked population eigenvectors. Based on these results, we develop a new statistic to test the equality of two spiked population covariance matrices. Numerical studies show that the new test procedure is more powerful than some existing methods.