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Maximum of sparsely equicorrelated Gaussian fields and applications
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Johannes Heiny, Tiefeng Jiang, Tuan Pham, Yongcheng Qi
Abstract
We investigate the extreme values of a sparse and equicorrelated Gaussian field on a triangle: the correlations on every vertical or horizontal line are all equal to a parameter $r \in [0,1/2]$ and are zero everywhere else. This problem is closely linked with various problems in high-dimensional statistics and extreme-value theory. We identify the threshold for $r$ at which the standard Gumbel law breaks down. Our result is based on a subtle application of the Chen-Stein method for Poisson approximation. As applications, we discuss the implication of our results on multiple testing and resolve several questions that were left open in \cite{heiny2024maximum}, \cite{tang2022asymptotic} and \cite{Jiang19}.
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