Variational formula for the logarithmic potential of free additive convolutions

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Main Authors: Concetti, Francesco, Belius, David, Genovese, Giuseppe
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Published: 2025
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author Concetti, Francesco
Belius, David
Genovese, Giuseppe
author_facet Concetti, Francesco
Belius, David
Genovese, Giuseppe
contents We establish a general variational formula for the logarithmic potential of the free additive convolution of two compactly supported probability measure on $\R$. The formula is given in terms of the $R$-transform of the first measure, and the logarithmic potential of second measure. The result applies in particular to the additive convolution with the semicircle or Marchenko-Pastur laws, for which the formula simplifies. The logarithmic potential of additive convolutions appears for instance in estimates of the determinant of sums of independent random matrices.
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spellingShingle Variational formula for the logarithmic potential of free additive convolutions
Concetti, Francesco
Belius, David
Genovese, Giuseppe
Probability
46L54, 31A10, 60B20
We establish a general variational formula for the logarithmic potential of the free additive convolution of two compactly supported probability measure on $\R$. The formula is given in terms of the $R$-transform of the first measure, and the logarithmic potential of second measure. The result applies in particular to the additive convolution with the semicircle or Marchenko-Pastur laws, for which the formula simplifies. The logarithmic potential of additive convolutions appears for instance in estimates of the determinant of sums of independent random matrices.
title Variational formula for the logarithmic potential of free additive convolutions
topic Probability
46L54, 31A10, 60B20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19064