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Frédéric Menous

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arXiv2026

Explicit linearization of multi-dimensional germs and vector fields through Ecalle's tree expansions

We revisit the Siegel linearization problem by means of explicit formulas of non-recursive type for the linearizing transformations of a non-resonant holomorphic germ of diffeomorphism at a fixed point, or a non-resonant holomorphic germ of vector field at a singular point, in any complex dimension. These formal expressions, that have the same shape for dynamical systems with discrete or continuous time and were obtained long ago by J. Ecalle through his "arborification" technique, are derived here by a more direct application of his tree-based combinatorics called "armould calculus". They involve a certain family of differential operators indexed by decorated trees and forests. A combinatorial study of these differential operators allows us to recover, under Bruno's arithmetical condition, the best known estimates for the domains of convergence of the holomorphic linearizing changes of variables in terms of the value of the Bruno series, including a new precise dependence with respect to the dimension of the problem.

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arXiv2023

Tree expansions of some Lie idempotents}

We prove that the Catalan Lie idempotent $D_n(a,b)$, introduced in [Menous {\it et al.}, Adv. Appl. Math. 51 (2013), 177] can be refined by introducing $n$ independent parameters $a_0,\ldots,a_{n-1}$ and that the coefficient of each monomial is itself a Lie idempotent in the descent algebra. These new idempotents are multiplicity-free sums of subsets of the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt basis of the Lie module. These results are obtained by embedding noncommutative symmetric functions into the dual noncommutative Connes-Kreimer algebra, which also allows us to interpret, and rederive in a simpler way, Chapoton's results on a two-parameter tree expanded series.

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arXiv2020

Resurgence and holonomy of the $ϕ^{2k}$ model in zero dimension

We describe the resurgence properties of some partition functions corresponding to field theories in dimension 0. We show that these functions satisfy linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients and then use elementary stability results or holonomic functions to prove resurgence properties, enhancing previously known results on growth estimates for the formal series involved, which had been obtained through a delicate combinatorics.

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arXiv2020

Quadri-algebras, preLie algebras, and the Catalan family of Lie idempotents

We compute the expansion of the Catalan family of Lie idempotents introduced in [Menous et al., Adv. Applied Math. 51 (2013), 177-22] on the PBW basis of the Lie module. It is found that the coefficient of a tree depends only on its number of left and right internal edges. In particular, the Catalan idempotents belong to a preLie algebra based on naked binary trees, of which we identify several Lie and preLie subalgebras.

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arXiv2018

Renormalization: a quasi-shuffle approach

In recent years, the usual BPHZ algorithm for renormalization in perturbative quantum field theory has been interpreted, after dimensional regularization, as a Birkhoff decomposition of characters on the Hopf algebra of Feynman graphs, with values in a Rota-Baxter algebra of amplitudes. We associate in this paper to any such algebra a universal semi-group (different in nature from the Connes-Marcolli "cosmical Galois group"). Its action on the physical amplitudes associated to Feynman graphs produces the expected operations: Bogoliubov's preparation map, extraction of divergences, renormalization. In this process a key role is played by commutative and noncommutative quasi-shuffle bialgebras whose universal properties are instrumental in encoding the renormalization process.

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arXiv2017

Free cumulants, Schröder trees, and operads

The functional equation defining the free cumulants in free probability is lifted successively to the noncommutative Faà di Bruno algebra, and then to the group of a free operad over Schröder trees. This leads to new combinatorial expressions, which remain valid for operator-valued free probability. Specializations of these expressions give back Speicher's formula in terms of noncrossing partitions, and its interpretation in terms of characters due to Ebrahimi-Fard and Patras.

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arXiv2016

Combinatorics of Poincaré's and Schröder's equations

We investigate the combinatorial properties of the functional equation $ϕ[h(z)]=h(qz)$ for the conjugation of a formal diffeomorphism $ϕ$ of $\mathbb{C}$ to its linear part $z\mapsto qz$. This is done by interpreting the functional equation in terms of symmetric functions, and then lifting it to noncommutative symmetric functions. We describe explicitly the expansion of the solution in terms of plane trees and prove that its expression on the ribbon basis has coefficients in ${\mathbb N}[q]$ after clearing the denominators $(q)_n$. We show that the conjugacy equation can be lifted to a quadratic fixed point equation in the free triduplicial algebra on one generator. This can be regarded as a $q$-deformation of the duplicial interpretation of the noncommutative Lagrange inversion formula. Finally, these calculations are interpreted in terms of the group of the operad of Stasheff polytopes, and are related to Ecalle's arborified expansion by means of morphisms between various Hopf algebras of trees.

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arXiv2016

Right-handed Hopf algebras and the preLie forest formula

Three equivalent methods allow to compute the antipode of the Hopf algebras of Feynman diagrams in perturbative quantum field theory (QFT): the Dyson-Salam formula, the Bogoliubov formula, and the Zimmermann forest formula. Whereas the first two hold generally for arbitrary connected graded Hopf algebras, the third one requires extra structure properties of the underlying Hopf algebra but has the nice property to reduce drastically the number of terms in the expression of the antipode (it is optimal in that sense).The present article is concerned with the forest formula: we show that it generalizes to arbitrary right-handed polynomial Hopf algebras. These Hopf algebras are dual to the enveloping algebras of preLie algebras -a structure common to many combinatorial Hopf algebras which is carried in particular by the Hopf algebras of Feynman diagrams.

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arXiv2012

Mould calculus, polyhedral cones, and characters of combinatorial Hopf algebras

We describe a method for constructing characters of combinatorial Hopf algebras by means of integrals over certain polyhedral cones. This is based on ideas from resurgence theory, in particular on the construction of well-behaved averages induced by diffusion processes on the real line. We give several interpretations and proofs of the main result in terms of noncommutative symmetric and quasisymmetric functions, as well as generalizations involving matrix quasi-symmetric functions. The interpretation of noncommutative symmetric functions as alien operators in resurgence theory is also discussed, and a new family of Lie idempotents of descent algebras is derived from this interpretation.

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