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Roy's largest root under rank-one perturbations: the complex valued case and applications
Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa1, Boaz Nadler2, Ofer Shwartz2
1Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Abstract:
The largest eigenvalue of a single or a double Wishart matrix, both known as Roy's largest root, plays an important role in a variety of applications. Recently, via a small noise perturbation approach with fixed dimension and degrees of freedom, Johnstone and Nadler derived simple yet accurate approximations to its distribution in the real valued case, under a rank-one alternative. In this paper, we extend their results to the complex valued case for five common single matrix and double matrix settings. In addition, we study the finite sample distribution of the leading eigenvector. We present the utility of our results in several signal detection and communication applications, and illustrate their accuracy via simulations.
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