Benaych-Georges, Florent; Péché, Sandrine Largest eigenvalues and eigenvectors of band or sparse random matrices. (English) Zbl 1297.15038 Electron. Commun. Probab. 19, Paper No. 4, 9 p. (2014). Summary: In this text, we consider an \(N\) by \(N\) random matrix \(X\) such that all but \(o(N)\) rows of \(X\) have \(W\) non identically zero entries, the other rows having less than \(W\) entries (such as, for example, standard or cyclic band matrices). We always suppose that \(1 \ll W \ll N\). We first prove that if the entries are independent, centered, have variance one, satisfy a certain tail upper-bound condition and \(W \gg (\log N)^{6(1+\alpha)}\), where \(\alpha\) is a positive parameter depending on the distribution of the entries, then the largest eigenvalue of \(X/\sqrt{W}\) converges to the upper bound of its limit spectral distribution, that is 2, as for Wigner matrices. This extends some previous results by Khorunzhiy and Sodin where less hypotheses were made on \(W\), but more hypotheses were made about the law of the entries and the structure of the matrix. Then, under the same hypotheses, we prove a delocalization result for the eigenvectors of \(X\), precisely that most of them cannot be essentially localized on less than \(W/\log(N)\) entries. This lower bound on the localization length has to be compared to the recent result by Steinerberger, which states that the localization length in the edge is \(\ll W^{7/5}\) or there is strong interaction between two eigenvectors in an interval oflength \(W^{7/5}\). Cited in 8 Documents MSC: 15B52 Random matrices (algebraic aspects) 60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems Keywords:random matrices; sparse matrices; largest eigenvalues; localization PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{F. Benaych-Georges} and \textit{S. Péché}, Electron. Commun. Probab. 19, Paper No. 4, 9 p. (2014; Zbl 1297.15038) Full Text: DOI arXiv