On the Condition Number of the Shifted Real Ginibre Ensemble

Abstract

We derive an accurate lower tail estimate on the lowest singular value $\sigma_1(X-z)$ of a real Gaussian (Ginibre) random matrix $X$ shifted by a complex parameter $z$. Such shift effectively changes the upper tail behavior of the condition number $\kappa(X-z)$ from the slower $(\kappa(X-z)\ge t)\lesssim 1/t$ decay typical for real Ginibre matrices to the faster $1/t^2$ decay seen for complex Ginibre matrices as long as $z$ is away from the real axis. This sharpens and resolves a recent conjecture in [J. Banks et al., https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08930, 2020] on the regularizing effect of the real Ginibre ensemble with a genuinely complex shift. As a consequence we obtain an improved upper bound on the eigenvalue condition numbers (known also as the eigenvector overlaps) for real Ginibre matrices. The main technical tool is a rigorous supersymmetric analysis from our earlier work [Probab. Math. Phys., 1 (2020), pp. 101--146].

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