Abstract
We consider the adjacency matrix A of the Erdős–Rényi graph on N vertices with edge probability . For , we prove that the eigenvalues near the spectral edge form asymptotically a Poisson point process and the associated eigenvectors are exponentially localized. As a corollary, at the critical scale , the limiting distribution of the largest nontrivial eigenvalue does not match with any previously known distribution. Together with (Comm. Math. Phys. 388 (2021) 507–579), our result establishes the coexistence of a fully delocalized phase and a fully localized phase in the spectrum of A. The proof relies on a three-scale rigidity argument, which characterizes the fluctuations of the eigenvalues in terms of the fluctuations of sizes of spheres of radius 1 and 2 around vertices of large degree.
Funding Statement
The authors acknowledge funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 715539_RandMat and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 895698. Funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation through the NCCR SwissMAP grant and the grant 200020–200400 is also acknowledged.
Citation
Johannes Alt. Raphael Ducatez. Antti Knowles. "Poisson statistics and localization at the spectral edge of sparse Erdős–Rényi graphs." Ann. Probab. 51 (1) 277 - 358, January 2023. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AOP1596
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