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A Free Analogue of Shannon's Problem on Monotonicity of Entropy

Operator Algebras 2007-05-23 v1 Probability

Abstract

We prove a free probability analog of a result of Artstein-Bally-Barthez-Naor. In particualar we prove that if X_{1},X_{2},... are freely independent identically distributed random variables, then the free entropy chi(X_{1}+...+X_{n}/\sqrt{n}) is monotone increasing for all n. Our proof also leads to a slight simplification of the original argument in the classical case.

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@article{arxiv.math/0510103,
  title  = {A Free Analogue of Shannon's Problem on Monotonicity of Entropy},
  author = {D. Shlyakhtenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0510103},
  year   = {2007}
}