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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Strong convergence of eigenangles and eigenvectors for the circular unitary ensemble
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Kenneth Maples
  • Joseph Najnudel
  • Ashkan Nikeghbali
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Annals of Probability
Geographical Reach international
Volume 47
Number 4
Page Range 2417 - 2458
Date 2019
Abstract Text It is known that a unitary matrix can be decomposed into a product of complex reflections, one for each dimension, and that these reflections are independent and uniformly distributed on the space where they live if the initial matrix is Haar-distributed. If we take an infinite sequence of such reflections, and consider their successive products, then we get an infinite sequence of unitary matrices of increasing dimension, all of them following the circular unitary ensemble. In this coupling, we show that the eigenvalues of the matrices converge almost surely to the eigenvalues of the flow, which are distributed according to a sine-kernel point process, and we get some estimates of the rate of convergence. Moreover, we also prove that the eigenvectors of the matrices converge almost surely to vectors which are distributed as Gaussian random fields on a countable set.
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