Brown measure convergence conjecture for polynomials in Wigner matrices

Let pp be a not necessarily selfadjoint polynomial in mm non-commuting variables. Let XN(1),,XN(m)X_N^{(1)},\dots,X_N^{(m)} be independent selfadjoint Gaussian or Wigner random matrices, converging in \star-moments to a free semicircular family s1,,sms_1,\dots,s_m. Define

AN:=p(XN(1),,XN(m)),x:=p(s1,,sm).A_N:=p(X_N^{(1)},\dots,X_N^{(m)}),\qquad x:=p(s_1,\dots,s_m).

The convergence in \star-moments of the matrices to the semicircular family implies convergence in \star-moments of ANA_N to xx.

Brown measure convergence conjecture. The eigenvalue distributions μAN\mu_{A_N} converge to the Brown measure μx\mu_x of xx.

This conjecture seeks to establish convergence of eigenvalue distributions for polynomial functions of independent Gaussian or Wigner matrices, beyond the settings where Brown-measure continuity is already known. The source presents it as unresolved and says that the authors will address it in future work.

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Serban Belinschi, Piotr Sniady and Roland Speicher, “Eigenvalues of non-hermitian random matrices and Brown measure of non-normal operators: hermitian reduction and linearization method”, arXiv:1506.02017 (2017).

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