Products of free random variables and k-divisible partitions

Abstract

We derive a formula for the moments and the free cumulants of the multiplication of $k$ free random variables in terms of $k$-equal and $k$-divisible non-crossing partitions. This leads to a new simple proof for the bounds of the right-edge of the support of the free multiplicative convolution ${\mu }^{⊠k}$, given by Kargin which show that the support grows at most linearly with $k$. Moreover, this combinatorial approach generalize the results of Kargin since we do not require the convolved measures to be identical. We also give further applications, such as a new proof of the limit theorem of Sakuma and Yoshida.

Added remarks on Boolean cumulants; Electronic Communications in Probability, vol 17 (2012), no.11