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We use the method of moments to establish the limiting spectral distribution (LSD) of appropriately scaled large dimensional random symmetric circulant, reverse circulant, Toeplitz and Hankel matrices which have suitable band structures. The input sequence used to construct these matrices is assumed to be either i.i.d. with mean zero and variance one or independent and appropriate finite fourth moment. The class of LSD includes the normal and the symmetrized square root of chi-square with two degrees of freedom. In several other cases, explicit forms of the limit do not seem to be obtainable but the limits can be shown to be symmetric and their second and the fourth moments can be calculated with some effort. Simulations suggest some further properties of the limits.
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Communicated by Bálint Tóth
Research supported by J. C. Bose National Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Part of the work was done while the author was visiting Dept. of Economics, University of Cincinnati.
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Basak, A., Bose, A. Limiting spectral distributions of some band matrices. Period Math Hung 63, 113–150 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-011-7113-5
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