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Quantum Exchangeable Sequences of Algebras

Operator Algebras 2009-07-03 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We extend the notion of quantum exchangeability, introduced by K\"ostler and Speicher in arXiv:0807.0677, to sequences (\rho_1,\rho_2,...c) of homomorphisms from an algebra C into a noncommutative probability space (A,\phi), and prove a free de Finetti theorem: an infinite quantum exchangeable sequence (\rho_1,\rho_2,...c) is freely independent and identically distributed with respect to a conditional expectation. As a corollary we obtain a free analogue of the Hewitt Savage zero-one law. As in the classical case, the theorem fails for finite sequences. We give a characterization of finite quantum exchangeable sequences, which can be viewed as a noncommutative analogue of sampling without replacement. We then give an approximation to how far a finite quantum exchangeable sequence is from being freely independent with amalgamation.

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@article{arxiv.0812.3428,
  title  = {Quantum Exchangeable Sequences of Algebras},
  author = {Stephen Curran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3428},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Added comments and reference [8], final version to appear in Indiana Univ. Math. Journal

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