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The Brown measure of unbounded variables with free semicircular imaginary part

Operator Algebras 2021-11-23 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

Let x0x_0 be an unbounded self-adjoint operator such that the Brown measure of x0x_0 exists in the sense of Haagerup and Schultz. Also let σ~α\tilde\sigma_\alpha and σβ\sigma_\beta be semicircular variables with variances α0\alpha\geq 0 and β>0\beta>0 respectively. Suppose x0x_0, σα\sigma_\alpha, and σ~β\tilde\sigma_\beta are all freely independent. We compute the Brown measure of x0+σ~α+iσβx_0+\tilde\sigma_\alpha+i\sigma_\beta, extending the recent work which assume x0x_0 is a bounded self-adjoint random variable. We use the PDE method introduced by Driver, Hall and Kemp to compute the Brown measure. The computation of the PDE relies on a charaterization of the class of operators where the Brown measure exists. The Brown measure in this unbounded case has the same structure as in the bounded case; it has connections to the free convolution x0+σα+βx_0+\sigma_{\alpha+\beta}. We also compute the example where x0x_0 is Cauchy-distributed.

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@article{arxiv.2011.14222,
  title  = {The Brown measure of unbounded variables with free semicircular imaginary part},
  author = {Ching-Wei Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.14222},
  year   = {2021}
}