{ "id": "math/9905094", "version": "v1", "published": "1999-05-17T10:42:40.000Z", "updated": "1999-05-17T10:42:40.000Z", "title": "Combinatorics of free cumulants", "authors": [ "Bernadette Krawczyk", "Roland Speicher" ], "comment": "26 pages, Latex2e", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.OA", "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We derive a formula for expressing free cumulants whose entries are products of random variables in terms of the lattice structure of non-crossing partitions. We show the usefulness of that result by giving direct and conceptually simple proofs for a lot of results about $R$-diagonal elements. Our investigations do not assume the trace property for the considered linear functionals.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1999-05-17T10:42:40.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "combinatorics", "linear functionals", "trace property", "expressing free cumulants", "diagonal elements" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 26, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "1999math......5094K" } } }