Third Order Cumulants of products
Octavio Arizmendi, Daniel Munoz George, Saylé Sigarreta
TL;DR
The paper develops a third-order analogue of higher-order freeness, deriving a general formula for the third-order cumulants of products in terms of sums over the combinatorial class of non-crossing partitioned permutations $\mathcal{PS}_{NC}$ with a separability condition.The authors introduce and exploit the machinery of non-crossing partitioned permutations across three circles, extend several topological and ordering lemmas from the two-circle case, and prove the main theorem by induction on $(r,s,t)$.They then apply the main result to multiple random-matrix ensembles, including Gaussian Ginibre, Wishart models, and products of third-order free circular elements, obtaining explicit cumulant and moment expressions, and establish that third-order $R$-diagonality is preserved under multiplication by free factors.These results extend known second-order formulas to third order, providing concrete formulas for cumulants and fluctuation moments of products, with implications for the analysis of multi-factor random matrix products and related operator-algebraic structures.
Abstract
We provide a formula for the third order free cumulants of products as entries. We apply this formula to find the third order free cumulants of various Random Matrix Ensambles including product of Ginibre Matrices and Wishart matrices, both in the Gaussian case.
