Marchenko–Pastur distribution

In random matrix theory, the Marchenko–Pastur distribution, or Marchenko–Pastur law, describes the asymptotic behavior of singular values of large rectangular random matrices. The theorem is named after Ukrainian mathematicians Vladimir Marchenko and Leonid Pastur who proved this result in 1967.

If denotes a random matrix whose entries are independent identically distributed random variables with mean 0 and variance , let

and let be the eigenvalues of (viewed as random variables). Finally, consider the random measure

Theorem. Assume that so that the ratio . Then (in weak* topology in distribution), where

and

with

The Marchenko–Pastur law also arises as the free Poisson law in free probability theory, having rate and jump size .

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