陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Random matrices: A general approach for the least singular value problem」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Van Vu and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “ Random matrices: A general approach for the least singular value problem “, submitted to Israel J. Math. . This paper continues a recent series of papers by ourselves and also by Rudelson and by Rudelson – Vershynin on understanding the least singular value of a large random random complex matrix A. There are many random matrix models that one can consider, but here we consider models of the form , where is a determinis

In the model mean zero case , the normalised singular values of are known to be asymptotically distributed according to the Marchenko-Pastur distribution , which in particular implies that most of the singular values are continuously distributed (via a semicircular distribution) in the interval . (Assuming only second moment hypotheses on the underlying distribution x, this result is due to Yin ; there are many earlier results assuming stronger hypotheses on x.) This strongly

已知结果和反例

There have been several papers establishing lower tail bounds on the least singular value consistent with the above conjecture of varying degrees of strength, under various hypotheses on the matrix and distribution x. For instance:

These recent results are largely based on entropy (or “epsilon-net”) arguments, combined with conditioning arguments, with the entropy bounds in turn originating from inverse Littlewood-Offord theorems; see my Lewis lectures for further discussion.

证明或构造的主线

The current paper is a partial unification of the results of Rudelson and Vershynin (which give very sharp tail estimates, but under strong hypotheses on M and x) and ourselves (which have very general assumptions on M and x, but a weak tail estimate). A little more precisely, we obtain an estimate of the form

for any fixed , assuming that . This result almost recovers those of Rudelson and Vershynin under subgaussian hypotheses on x (which are known to imply exponentially good bounds on ) in the case when has polynomial size, except that we lose a factor of . One has analogous results here in which and are bounded by some weaker power of n than ; roughly speaking, if and have size , then we can show that is at least with probability for any given C.

阅读时建议盯住的点

We also give a simple example that show that the deterioration of these bounds when gets large is necessary; in particular, we show that the universality of the bounds of Edelman type can break down once exceeds , because one can design M to force the existence of an unusually small value of for a certain type of unit vector v.

Our methods here are based on those of earlier papers, particularly our circular law paper ; the key innovation is to run a certain scale pigeonholing argument as efficiently as possible, so that one only loses factors of in the final bound.

值得单独记下的条目

• In 1988, Edelman showed that for any when and x is Gaussian (there is also a matching lower bound when ).
• In 2005, Rudelson showed that when and x is subgaussian.
• In 2005, Van Vu and I showed that for every there existed such that , when and x is the Bernoulli distribution (equal to +1 or -1 with a equal probability of each).
• In 2006, Senkar, Teng, and Spielman extended Edelman’s result to the case when is nonzero (but x is still Gaussian).
• In 2007, Rudelson-Vershynin showed that is bounded by for independent of n when and x has bounded fourth moment, and is bounded by for all if x is subgaussian.
• In 2007, Van Vu and I removed the integrality assumptions on our previous results, thus establishing the bound whenever M has polynomial size and with no assumptions on x other than zero mean and unit variance. (See also my earlier blog pos

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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