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Spectral Phase Transitions in Non-Linear Wigner Spiked Models

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arxiv 2310.14055 v1 pith:LO6T63TT submitted 2023-10-21 math.PR

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We study the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum of a random matrix where a non-linearity is applied entry-wise to a Wigner matrix perturbed by a rank-one spike with independent and identically distributed entries. In this setting, we show that when the signal-to-noise ratio scale as $N^{\frac{1}{2} (1-1/k_\star)}$, where $k_\star$ is the first non-zero generalized information coefficient of the function, the non-linear spike model effectively behaves as an equivalent spiked Wigner matrix, where the former spike before the non-linearity is now raised to a power $k_\star$. This allows us to study the phase transition of the leading eigenvalues, generalizing part of the work of Baik, Ben Arous and Pech\'e to these non-linear models.

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