Decorrelation transition in the Wigner minor process

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Main Authors: Bao, Zhigang, Cipolloni, Giorgio, Erdős, László, Henheik, Joscha, Kolupaiev, Oleksii
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author Bao, Zhigang
Cipolloni, Giorgio
Erdős, László
Henheik, Joscha
Kolupaiev, Oleksii
author_facet Bao, Zhigang
Cipolloni, Giorgio
Erdős, László
Henheik, Joscha
Kolupaiev, Oleksii
contents We consider the Wigner minor process, i.e. the eigenvalues of an $N\times N$ Wigner matrix $H^{(N)}$ together with the eigenvalues of all its $n\times n$ minors, $H^{(n)}$, $n\le N$. The top eigenvalues of $H^{(N)}$ and those of its immediate minor $H^{(N-1)}$ are very strongly correlated, but this correlation becomes weaker for smaller minors $H^{(N-k)}$ as $k$ increases. For the GUE minor process the critical transition regime around $k\sim N^{2/3}$ was analyzed by Forrester and Nagao (J. Stat. Mech.: Theory and Experiment, 2011) providing an explicit formula for the nontrivial joint correlation function. We prove that this formula is universal, i.e. it holds for the Wigner minor process. Moreover, we give a complete analysis of the sub- and supercritical regimes both for eigenvalues and for the corresponding eigenvector overlaps, thus we prove the decorrelation transition in full generality.
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spellingShingle Decorrelation transition in the Wigner minor process
Bao, Zhigang
Cipolloni, Giorgio
Erdős, László
Henheik, Joscha
Kolupaiev, Oleksii
Probability
Mathematical Physics
60B20, 60G55, 82C10
We consider the Wigner minor process, i.e. the eigenvalues of an $N\times N$ Wigner matrix $H^{(N)}$ together with the eigenvalues of all its $n\times n$ minors, $H^{(n)}$, $n\le N$. The top eigenvalues of $H^{(N)}$ and those of its immediate minor $H^{(N-1)}$ are very strongly correlated, but this correlation becomes weaker for smaller minors $H^{(N-k)}$ as $k$ increases. For the GUE minor process the critical transition regime around $k\sim N^{2/3}$ was analyzed by Forrester and Nagao (J. Stat. Mech.: Theory and Experiment, 2011) providing an explicit formula for the nontrivial joint correlation function. We prove that this formula is universal, i.e. it holds for the Wigner minor process. Moreover, we give a complete analysis of the sub- and supercritical regimes both for eigenvalues and for the corresponding eigenvector overlaps, thus we prove the decorrelation transition in full generality.
title Decorrelation transition in the Wigner minor process
topic Probability
Mathematical Physics
60B20, 60G55, 82C10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06549