A Noncommutative Szegő-Type Theorem on the Row-Ball

In this paper we leverage the recently developed theory of noncommutative (nc) measures to prove a free noncommutative analogue of many known equalities extending the weak Szegő limit theorem, by applying Constantinescu’s theory of Schur parameters to an appropriate kernel on the free monoid on $d$ generators, where $d\ge 1$; in particular, we show that our nc Szegő entropy depends only upon the absolutely continuous part of the associated nc measure. We obtain a correspondence between nc measures and multi-Toeplitz kernels arising from considering the moments of the nc measure, and apply this correspondence to study orthogonal polynomials associated to an nc measure. Finally, we study the determinantal zeros of those polynomials and obtain a noncommutative row-ball analogue of the so-called Zeros Theorem for orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle.