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Maciej A Nowak1, Wojciech Tarnowski1
1M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics and Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Center, Jagiellonian University, S. Łojasiewicza 11, PL 30-348 Kraków, Poland.
Abstract:
Using diagrammatic techniques, we provide explicit functional relations between the cumulant generating functions for the biunitarily invariant ensembles in the limit of large size of matrices. The formalism allows us to map two distinct areas of free random variables: Hermitian positive definite operators and non-normal R-diagonal operators. We also rederive the Haagerup-Larsen theorem and show how its recent extension to the eigenvector correlation function appears naturally within this approach.
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