Freely infinitely divisible $R$-diagonal elements and Brown measure

Abstract

We study freely infinitely divisible $R$-diagonal elements in the unbounded setting and Brown measures for free additive perturbations by such elements. This class includes circular elements, circular Cauchy elements, and other previously studied $R$-diagonal models. We construct examples and prove stability under several algebraic operations, including homogeneous noncommutative polynomials in bounded, freely independent elements from this class. Using results for general $R$-diagonal perturbations, together with several analytic estimates specific to freely infinitely divisible $R$-diagonal elements, we prove that, in the bounded case, the support of the Brown measure coincides with the spectrum, and we obtain a criterion for property (H) in this non-normal setting. Finally, we study the free convolution semigroup associated with the symmetrized law of the modulus and derive a Hamilton--Jacobi equation for the regularized logarithmic potential.

Preliminary version, 25 pages