Type: Article
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
Citations: 32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4931476
We study the spectrum of an asymmetric random matrix with block structured variances. The rows and columns of the random square matrix are divided into $D$ partitions with arbitrary size (linear in $N$). The parameters of the model are the variances of elements in each block, summarized in $g\in\mathbb{R}^{D\times D}_+$. Using the Hermitization approach and by studying the matrix-valued Stieltjes transform we show that these matrices have a circularly symmetric spectrum, we give an explicit formula for their spectral radius and a set of implicit equations for the full density function. We discuss applications of this model to neural networks.