In this paper, we give an elementary proof of the additivity of the functional inverses of the resolvents of large $N$ random matrices, using recently developed matrix model techniques. This proof also gives a very natural generalization of these formulae to the case of measures with an external field. A similar approach yields a relation of the same type for multiplication of random matrices.

Categories: math-ph cond-mat hep-th math.MP

Adding and multiplying random matrices: a generalization of Voiculescu's formulae