On star-Moments of the compression of the free unitary Brownian motion by a free projection

Abstract

In this paper, we derive explicit expressions for the moments and for the mixed moments of the compression of a free unitary Brownian motion by a free projection. While the moments of this non-normal operator are readily derived using analytical or combinatorial methods, we only succeeded to derive its mixed ones after solving a non-linear partial differential equation for their two-variables generating function. Nonetheless, the combinatorics of non crossing partitions lead to another expression of the lowest-order mixed moment. We shall also give some interest in odd alternating moments. In particular, we derive a linear partial differential equation for their generating function and discuss the combinatorial approach to these moments when the rank of the projection equals $1/2$.