Suppose we have the following \(k\) independent high-dimensional samples:
$$
\boldsymbol{y}_{i1},\ldots,\boldsymbol{y}_{in_i}, \;\operatorname{are \; i.i.d. \; with}\; \operatorname{E}(\boldsymbol{y}_{i1})=\boldsymbol{\mu}_i,\; \operatorname{Cov}(\boldsymbol{y}_{i1})=\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_i,i=1,\ldots,k.
$$
It is of interest to test the following GLHT problem:
$$H_0: \boldsymbol{G M}=\boldsymbol{0}, \quad \text { vs. } H_1: \boldsymbol{G M} \neq \boldsymbol{0},$$
where
\(\boldsymbol{M}=(\boldsymbol{\mu}_1,\ldots,\boldsymbol{\mu}_k)^\top\) is a \(k\times p\) matrix collecting \(k\) mean vectors and \(\boldsymbol{G}:q\times k\) is a known full-rank coefficient matrix with \(\operatorname{rank}(\boldsymbol{G})<k\).
Let \(\bar{\boldsymbol{y}}_{i},i=1,\ldots,k\) be the sample mean vectors and \(\hat{\boldsymbol{\Sigma}}_i,i=1,\ldots,k\) be the sample covariance matrices.
Zhang and Zhu (2022) proposed the following U-statistic based test statistic:
$$
T_{ZZ}=\|\boldsymbol{C \hat{\mu}}\|^2-\sum_{i=1}^kh_{ii}\operatorname{tr}(\hat{\boldsymbol{\Sigma}}_i)/n_i,
$$
where \(\boldsymbol{C}=[(\boldsymbol{G D G}^\top)^{-1/2}\boldsymbol{G}]\otimes\boldsymbol{I}_p\), \(\boldsymbol{D}=\operatorname{diag}(1/n_1,\ldots,1/n_k)\), and \(h_{ij}\) is the \((i,j)\)th entry of the \(k\times k\) matrix \(\boldsymbol{H}=\boldsymbol{G}^\top\boldsymbol{G}\).