Bousseyroux–Potters R-transform conjecture for rotationally invariant matrix deformations

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Let \vbA\vb{A} be a large deterministic matrix and \vbB\vb{B} a rotationally invariant random matrix. Define the matrix-valued transforms G\vbA+\vbB\mathcal{G}_{\vb{A}+\vb{B}}, G\vbA\mathcal{G}_{\vb{A}}, and the associated scalar components g1=g1,\vbA+\vbB\mathfrak{g}_1=\mathfrak{g}_{1,\vb{A}+\vb{B}} and g2=g2,\vbA+\vbB\mathfrak{g}_2=\mathfrak{g}_{2,\vb{A}+\vb{B}}. Let R1,\vbB\mathcal{R}_{1,\vb{B}} and R2,\vbB\mathcal{R}_{2,\vb{B}} denote the corresponding R-transform components. Bousseyroux–Potters R-transform conjecture. For large ω\omega and zCz\in\mathbb{C}, one expects

G\vbA+\vbB(ω,z)=G\vbA(ωR1,\vbB(g1,g2),zR2,\vbB(g1,g2)).\mathcal{G}_{\vb{A}+\vb{B}}(\omega,z)=\mathcal{G}_{\vb{A}}\left(\omega-\mathcal{R}_{1,\vb{B}}(\mathfrak{g}_1,\mathfrak{g}_2),z-\mathcal{R}_{2,\vb{B}}(\mathfrak{g}_1,\mathfrak{g}_2)\right).

The identity is expected to admit analytic continuation to all (ω,z)(\omega,z), with appropriate choices of branches for R1\mathcal{R}_1 and R2\mathcal{R}_2. This is the main conjecture restated from the cited work and underlies the paper's spectral-boundary calculations; its general validity remains open.

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Pierre Bousseyroux and Marc Potters, “Spectral boundaries of deterministic matrices deformed by rotationally invariant random non-Hermitian ensembles”, arXiv:2602.16878 (2026).

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