Computing the Tracy-Widom Distribution for Arbitrary 𝛽 > 0

We compute the Tracy-Widom distribution describing the asymptotic distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a large random matrix by solving a boundary-value problem posed by Bloemendal in his Ph.D. Thesis (2011). The distribution is computed in two ways. The first method is a second-order finite-di...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2024
Hauptverfasser: Trogdon, Thomas, Zhang, Yiting
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2024
Online Zugang:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212118
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Zitieren:Computing the Tracy-Widom Distribution for Arbitrary 𝛽 > 0. Thomas Trogdon and Yiting Zhang. SIGMA 20 (2024), 005, 26 pages

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Zusammenfassung:We compute the Tracy-Widom distribution describing the asymptotic distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a large random matrix by solving a boundary-value problem posed by Bloemendal in his Ph.D. Thesis (2011). The distribution is computed in two ways. The first method is a second-order finite-difference method, and the second is a highly accurate Fourier spectral method. Since 𝛽 is simply a parameter in the boundary-value problem, any 𝛽 > 0 can be used, in principle. The limiting distribution of the 𝑛th largest eigenvalue can also be computed. Our methods are available in the Julia package TracyWidomBeta.jl.
ISSN:1815-0659