Gaussian fluctuation for Gaussian Wishart matrices of overall correlation

In this note, we study the Gaussian fluctuations for the Wishart matrices $d^{-1}\mathcal{X}_{n, d}\mathcal{X}^{T}_{n, d}$, where $\mathcal{X}_{n, d}$ is a $n\times d$ random matrix whose entries are jointly Gaussian and correlated with row and column covariance functions given by $r$ and $s$ respectively such that $r(0)=s(0)=1$. Under the assumptions $s\in \ell^{4/3}(\mathbb{Z})$ and $\|r\|_{\ell^1(\mathbb{Z})}< \sqrt{6}/2$, we establish the $\sqrt{n^3/d}$ convergence rate for the Wasserstein distance between a normalization of $d^{-1}\mathcal{X}_{n, d}\mathcal{X}^{T}_{n, d}$ and the corresponding Gaussian ensemble. This rate is the same as the optimal one computed in \cite{JL15,BG16,BDER16} for the total variation distance, in the particular case where the Gaussian entries of $\mathcal{X}_{n, d}$ are independent. Similarly, we obtain the $\sqrt{n^{2p-1}/d}$ convergence rate for the Wasserstein distance in the setting of random $p$-tensors of overall correlation. Our analysis is based on the Malliavin-Stein approach

Limiting behavior of large correlated Wishart matrices with chaotic entries

We study the fluctuations, as $d,n\to \infty$, of the Wishart matrix $\mathcal{W}_{n,d}= \frac{1}{d} \mathcal{X}_{n,d} \mathcal{X}_{n,d}^{T}$ associated to a $n\times d$ random matrix $\mathcal{X}_{n,d}$ with non-Gaussian entries. We analyze the limiting behavior in distribution of $\mathcal{W}_{n,d}$ in two situations: when the entries of $\mathcal{X}_{n,d}$ are independent elements of a Wiener chaos of arbitrary order and when the entries are partially correlated and belong to the second Wiener chaos. In the first case, we show that the (suitably normalized) Wishart matrix converges in distribution to a Gaussian matrix while in the correlated case, we obtain its convergence in law to a diagonal non-Gaussian matrix. In both cases, we derive the rate of convergence in the Wasserstein distance via Malliavin calculus and analysis on Wiener space

High dimensional regimes of non-stationary Gaussian correlated Wishart matrices

We study the high-dimensional asymptotic regimes of correlated Wishart matrices $d^{-1}\mathcal{Y}\mathcal{Y}^T$, where $\mathcal{Y}$ is a $n\times d$ Gaussian random matrix with correlated and non-stationary entries. We prove that under different normalizations, two distinct regimes emerge as both $n$ and $d$ grow to infinity. The first regime is the one of central convergence, where the law of the properly renormalized Wishart matrices becomes close in Wasserstein distance to that of a Gaussian orthogonal ensemble matrix. In the second regime, a non-central convergence happens, and the law of the normalized Wishart matrices becomes close in Wasserstein distance to that of the so-called Rosenblatt-Wishart matrix recently introduced by Nourdin and Zheng. We then proceed to show that the convergences stated above also hold in a functional setting, namely as weak convergence in $C([a,b];M_n(\mathbb{R}))$. As an application of our main result (in the central convergence regime), we show that it can be used to prove convergence in expectation of the empirical spectral distributions of the Wishart matrices to the semicircular law. Our findings complement and extend a rich collection of results on the study of the fluctuations of Gaussian Wishart matrices, and we provide explicit examples based on Gaussian entries given by normalized increments of a bi-fractional or a sub-fractional Brownian motion