Cumulants in rectangular finite free probability and beta-deformed singular values

Abstract

Motivated by the $(q,{\hat{I}}^3)$-cumulants, introduced by Xu [arXiv:2303.13812] to study ${\hat{I}}^2$-deformed singular values of random matrices, we define the $(n,d)$-rectangular cumulants for polynomials of degree $d$ and prove several moment-cumulant formulas by elementary algebraic manipulations; the proof naturally leads to quantum analogues of the formulas. We further show that the $(n,d)$-rectangular cumulants linearize the $(n,d)$-rectangular convolution from Finite Free Probability and that they converge to the $q$-rectangular free cumulants from Free Probability in the regime where $d\to \infty$, $1+n/d\to q\in [1,\infty )$. As an application, we employ our formulas to study limits of symmetric empirical root distributions of sequences of polynomials with nonnegative roots. One of our results is akin to a theorem of Kabluchko [arXiv:2203.05533] and shows that applying the operator $\exp (-\frac{s^2}{n}{x}^{-n}{D}_x{x}^{n+1}{D}_x)$, where $s>0$, asymptotically amounts to taking the rectangular free convolution with the rectangular Gaussian distribution of variance $q{s}^2/(q-1)$.

31 pages, 3 figures; v2: fixed minor typos, added Remark 2; v3: minor editorial correction. To appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society