Second order free cumulants: product, commutator, and anti-commutator
Abstract
Given two second order free random variables and , we study the second order free cumulants of their product , their commutator , and their anti-commutator . Let and denote the sequence of free cumulants of first and second order, respectively, of a random variable in a second order non-commutative probability space . Given and two second order freely independent random variables, we provide formulas to compute each of the cumulants , , and in terms of the individual cumulants , , , and . For our formulas read: \begin{align*} \kappa_{1,1}^{ab} &= \kappa_{2}^{a}\kappa_{2}^{b} +\kappa_{1,1}^{a}(\kappa_{1}^{b})^2+\kappa_{1,1}^{b}(\kappa_{1}^{a})^2,\\ \kappa_{1,1}^{ab-ba} &= 2\kappa_{2}^{a}\kappa_{2}^{b},\\ \kappa_{1,1}^{ab+ba} &= 2\kappa_{2}^{a}\kappa_{2}^{b} +4\kappa_{1,1}^{a}(\kappa_{1}^{b})^2+4\kappa_{1,1}^{b}(\kappa_{1}^{a})^2. \end{align*} In general, our formulas express the cumulants , , and as sums indexed by special subsets of non-crossing partitioned permutations. The formulas for the commutator and anti-commutator where not studied before, while the formula for the product was only known in the case the where the individual second order free cumulants vanish. As an application, we compute explicitly the cumulants of the anti-commutator and product of two second order free semicircular variables.
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@article{arxiv.2507.21031,
title = {Second order free cumulants: product, commutator, and anti-commutator},
author = {Daniel Munoz George and Daniel Perales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.21031},
year = {2025}
}
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46 pages, 7 figures