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Jensen's inequality for conditional expectations

Operator Algebras 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study conditional expectations generated by an abelian C C^* -subalgebra in the centralizer of a positive functional. We formulate and prove Jensen's inequality for functions of several variables with respect to this type of conditional expectations, and we obtain as a corollary Jensen's inequality for expectation values.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0609640,
  title  = {Jensen's inequality for conditional expectations},
  author = {Frank Hansen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609640},
  year   = {2007}
}