{ "id": "2104.02662", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-04-06T16:49:54.000Z", "updated": "2021-04-06T16:49:54.000Z", "title": "The spectral norm of Gaussian matrices with correlated entries", "authors": [ "Afonso S. Bandeira", "March T. Boedihardjo" ], "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We give a non-asymptotic bound on the spectral norm of a $d\\times d$ matrix $X$ with centered jointly Gaussian entries in terms of the covariance matrix of the entries. In some cases, this estimate is sharp and removes the $\\sqrt{\\log d}$ factor in the noncommutative Khintchine inequality.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-04-06T16:49:54.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "spectral norm", "gaussian matrices", "correlated entries", "non-asymptotic bound", "noncommutative khintchine inequality" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }