On the spectral radius of a random matrix: an upper bound without fourth moment. (English) Zbl 1393.05130
Summary: Consider a square matrix with independent and identically distributed entries of zero mean and unit variance. It is well known that if the entries have a finite fourth moment, then, in high dimension, with high probability, the spectral radius is close to the square root of the dimension. We conjecture that this holds true under the sole assumption of zero mean and unit variance. In other words, that there are no outliers in the circular law. In this work, we establish the conjecture in the case of symmetrically distributed entries with a finite moment of order larger than two. The proof uses the method of moments combined with a novel truncation technique for cycle weights that might be of independent interest.
MSC:
| 05C20 | Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments |
| 15B52 | Random matrices (algebraic aspects) |
| 47A10 | Spectrum, resolvent |
| 05C80 | Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) |
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