No eigenvalues outside the support of the limiting spectral distribution of large-dimensional sample covariance matrices

Abstract

Let $B_n = (1/N)T_n^{1/2}X_n X_n^* T_n^{1/2}$, where $X_n$ is $n \times N$ with i.i.d. complex standardized entries having finite fourth moment and $T_n^{1/2}$ is a Hermitian square root of the nonnegative definite Hermitian matrix $T_n$. It is known that, as $n \to \infty$, if $n/N$ converges to a positive number and the empirical distribution of the eigenvalues of $T_n$ converges to a proper probability distribution, then the empirical distribution of the eigenvalues of $B_n$ converges a.s. to a nonrandom limit. In this paper we prove that, under certain conditions on the eigenvalues of $T_n$, for any closed interval outside the support of the limit, with probability 1 there will be no eigenvalues in this interval for all $n$ sufficiently large.