Spectral Radii of Large Non-Hermitian Random Matrices

By using the independence structure of points following a determinantal point process, we study the radii of the spherical ensemble, the truncation of the circular unitary ensemble and the product ensemble with parameter n and k. The limiting distributions of the three radii are obtained. They are not the Tracy-Widom distribution. In particular, for the product ensemble, we show that the limiting distribution has a transition phenomenon: when k/n → 0, k/n → α ∈ (0,∞) and k/n → ∞, the liming distribution is the Gumbel distribution, a new distribution μ and the logarithmic normal distribution, respectively. The cumulative distribution function (cdf) of μ is the infinite product of some normal distribution functions. Another new distribution ν is also obtained for the spherical ensemble such that the cdf of ν is the infinite product of the cdfs of some Poisson-distributed random variables.