Signal detection in nearly continuous spectra and symmetry breaking

Abstract

The large scale behavior of systems having a large number of interacting degrees of freedom is suitably described using renormalization group, from non-Gaussian distributions. Renormalization group techniques used in physics are then expected to be helpful for issues when standard methods in data analysis break down. Signal detection and recognition for covariance matrices having nearly continuous spectra is currently an open issue in data science and machine learning. Using the field theoretical embedding introduced in arXiv:2011.02376 to reproduces experimental correlations, we show in this paper that the presence of a signal may be characterized by a phase transition with ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$-symmetry breaking. For our investigations, we use the nonperturbative renormalization group formalism, using a local potential approximation to construct an approximate solution of the flow. Moreover, we focus on the nearly continuous signal build as a perturbation of the Marchenko-Pastur law with many discrete spikes.

07 pages, 6 figures

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