%0 Journal Article %T A universality result for the smallest eigenvalues of certain sample covariance matrices %A Ohad N. Feldheim %A Sasha Sodin %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X After proper rescaling and under some technical assumptions, the smallest eigenvalue of a sample covariance matrix with aspect ratio bounded away from 1 converges to the Tracy--Widom distribution. This complements the results on the largest eigenvalue, due to Soshnikov and Peche. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1961v4