Abstract
In this article, we provide some new limiting laws related to the free multiplicative law of large numbers and involving free and Boolean additive convolutions. Some examples of these limiting laws are presented within the framework of non-commutative probability theory.
MSC:
60E10; 46L54
1. Introduction
In recent decades, a number of articles have studied limit theorems with respect to the free convolution of probability measures. The concept of freeness is the key notion. It may be viewed (for non-commutative random variables) as a type of independence. Like in classical probability, in which the notion of independence leads to classical convolution, the notion of freeness gives rise to a binary operation for real measures: the free convolution. A lot of classic results for the addition and multiplication of independent random variables possess analog properties for this new theory, for example, the central limit theorem, the Lévy–Khintchine formula, the law of large numbers and others. For an introduction to these subjects, we refer to [1]. In [2], the authors provide the distributional model behavior of the sum of free random variables distributed in an identical manner. They explicitly describe the relation between the limiting laws for classical and free additive convolutions. On the other hand, for measures with bounded support, Tucci [3] proved the limiting distribution for the free multiplicative law of large numbers. This result was extended in [4] to measures with unbounded support. Continuing the study of limiting distributions in non-commutative probability, we provide in this article some new limiting laws related to the free multiplicative law of large numbers and involving free and Boolean additive convolutions. For the clarity of the presentation of our results, we need to first recall some concepts of importance in non-commutative probability.
Denote by (respectively, ) the set of probability measures on (respectively, ).
The Cauchy–Stieltjes transform of is defined, for , as
where denotes the support of the measure .
The free additive convolution of and , denoted by , is defined by
where the free cumulant transform, , of is given by
See [5] for more details about the free cumulant transform.
A measure is ⊞-infinitely divisible if for each , there exists such that
Denote by the t-fold free additive convolution of with itself. This operation is well defined for all , (see [6]) and
A measure is ⊞-infinitely divisible if is well defined for all .
The Boolean additive convolution is another interesting convolution in the theory of non-commutative probability, see [7]. For , , the Boolean additive convolution is the probability measure defined by
where
denotes the Boolean cumulant transform of the measure .
A measure is ⊎-infinitely divisible if for each , there exists such that
Note that all measures are ⊎-infinitely divisible, see [7], Theorem 3.6.
We come now to the concept of free multiplicative convolution. For , , the -transform is given by
The multiplication of -transforms is also an -transform. For , , the multiplicative free convolution is defined by . Multiplicative-free convolution powers are well defined at least for all (see [8], Theorem 2.17) by .
Now, we present the notion of the free multiplicative law of large numbers. More precisely, we have the following.
Theorem 1
([4], Theorem 2). Let and let be the map . Set . If we consider
and thus converges weakly to a probability measure denoted on . If σ is a Dirac measure on , then . Otherwise, is the unique probability measure on characterized by
for all and . The support of is the closure of the interval
where .
In [9] (Theorem 3.1), an interesting description is given for the free multiplicative law of large numbers in terms of the pseudo-variance function of the Cauchy–Stieltjes kernel (CSK) family generated by (see the next section for CSK families and the corresponding pseudo-variance functions). A number of explicit examples are given for , see [9].
In this paper, we are interested in explicitly giving the limiting laws , and (for and ) by means of . Here, denotes the dilation of measure by a number and . Some calculations of , and are provided for measures of importance in non-commutative probability. Section 2 will describe some basic concepts about CSK families and their pseudo-variance functions. Section 3 is devoted to the main result of this article and concludes with some examples.
2. Cauchy–Stieltjes Kernel Families
We introduce some preliminaries about CSK families and their corresponding pseudo-variance functions, see [10] for more details.
Let be a probability measure which is non-degenerate with support bounded from above. The transform
converges to ∀ with . For , let
The one-sided CSK family generated by is the set
Denote by the mean of . From [11], we know that the function is strictly increasing on . Denote by the image of by . It is called the (one-sided) mean domain of . This gives a re-parametrization (by the mean) of . Consider , the inverse of , and for , write . Then, we obtain
Consider
(Here, is interpreted as ∞.) It was proven in [11] that
If the support of is bounded from below, one may similarly introduce the one-sided CSK family. Denote this family by . We have , where is either or with . The interval is the mean domain for with . If is compactly supported, then and the two-sided CSK family is .
The variance function is (see [12])
If does not have the first moment, all the laws that belong to the CSK family generated by have infinite variance. The concept of the pseudo-variance function was introduced in [11]. It is defined by
If is finite, then exists and (see [11])
Throughout the following two remarks, we recall some facts that will be used in the proof of the main result of the paper given by Theorem 2.
Remark 1.
- (i)
- Consider , where and , and let be the image of μ by φ. Then, for all x close enough to , we have (see [11])
- (ii)
- According to [11] (Proposition 3.10), for all such that is defined and for all x close enough to ,
- (iii)
- We know from [13] that for all and for all x close enough to ,Furthermore, for all and for all x close enough to , we have
Remark 2.
For such that is defined, there exists an injective analytic map , called subordination, such that , for . Furthermore,
and , where
For more details about the subordination function, see [14] (Theorem 2.5).
3. Main Result
In this section, we state and demonstrate the main result of this paper. Some new limiting distributions are provided in relation to the free multiplicative law of large numbers involving free and Boolean additive convolutions.
Theorem 2.
Let be non-degenerate. Set . With the notation introduced above, we have
- (i)
- For all ,
- (ii)
- For all ,
- (iii)
- For all ,
Proof.
(i) From [9] (Theorem 3.1), we have
Furthermore, we know from [14] (hl Theorem 3.1) that has an atom at 0 for if and only if . In this case,
Since is non-degenerate, this is the same for . Furthermore, . Then,
Combining (25) and (18), we obtain for all
Combining (15), (23), (24) and (26), we get for all that
From [15] (Lemma 2.7), for all and for all , we have
Then,
Equation (20) follows from (27) and (29).
(ii) From [15] (Corollary 2.3), we known that has an atom at 0 if and only if has an atom at 0. In this case, we have
Since is non-degenerate, this is the same for . Then, . Thus,
Combining (16), (23), (30) and (31), we get for all
Relation (21) follows from (28) and (32).
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Next, some examples are provided for the limiting laws , and using measures of importance in non-commutative probability.
Example 1.
Let be the symmetric Bernoulli distribution, with . We have , . Consider the translation . Then, , with . We have
From (19), we get
and therefore
for . Then,
We have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 2.
Consider Wigner’s law
with . We have
Consider the translation . Then,
with . We have
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 3.
For , consider the (absolutely continuous) Marchenko–Pastur law
with . We have
Consider the affine transformation . Then,
with . We have
and
We have that
and
for all . Then,
Then, we have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 4.
For , consider the Marchenko–Pastur law
with . We have
Consider the affine transformation . Then,
with . We have
The Cauchy transform of ν is given by (36). The measure ν has a Dirac mass at 0. This implies that and so .
The functions and are given, respectively, by (37) and (38). We have that
Then, we have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 5.
For , consider the free Gamma law,
with . We have
Consider the affine transformation . Then,
with . We have
and
We have that
and
for all . Then,
We have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 6.
The inverse semicircle law is given by
with . We have
Consider the transformation . Then,
with . We have that
We have that
and
for all . Then,
We have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 7.
The free Ressel law is given by
with . We have
Consider the transformation . Then,
with . We have
We have that
and
for all . Then,
We have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 8.
The Free Abel law is given by
with . We have
Consider the transformation . Then,
with . We have
We have that
and
for all . Then,
We have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
Example 9.
The free strict arcsine law is given by
with . We have
Consider the affine transformation . Then,
with . We have
We have that
and
for all . Then,
We have the following:
(i) For all ,
(ii) For all ,
(iii) For all ,
4. Conclusions
In classical probability, the law of large numbers for classical multiplicative convolution is deduced from the law for the classical additive convolution. This is not the case in non-commutative probability. The free additive law was demonstrated in [16] for probability measures with bounded support and extended in [17] to all probability measures with a first moment. The free multiplicative law was demonstrated in [3] for measures with bounded support and extended in [4] to measures with unbounded support. Contrary to the case of classical multiplicative convolution, the limiting measure for the free multiplicative law of large numbers is not a Dirac measure, except in the case where the original measure is a Dirac measure. In [9], an interesting description is given for the free multiplicative law of large numbers by means of the pseudo-variance function. In this paper, we have explicitly demonstrated the law of large numbers of three types of non-commutative probability measures involving the free and the Boolean additive convolutions. The results are explained using several probability measures and may be useful for researchers in the field of non-commutative probability.
Author Contributions
Writing original draft, R.F.; Writing review and editing, A.R.A.A. and F.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (Project No. PNURSP2024R358), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Data Availability Statement
Data is contained within the article.
Acknowledgments
The authors express their gratitude to Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (Project No. PNURSP2024R358), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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