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This in an introduction to free probability theory, covering the basic combinatorial and analytic theory, as well as the relations to random matrices and operator algebras. The material is mainly based on the two books of the lecturer, one…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Roland Speicher

We investigate the implications of free probability for random matrices. From rules for calculating all possible joint moments of two free random matrices, we develop a notion of partial freeness which is quantified by the breakdown of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-23 Jiahao Chen , Troy Van Voorhis , Alan Edelman

We give here a constructive account of the frequentist approach to probability, by means of natural density. Using this notion of natural density, we introduce some probabilistic versions of the Limited Principle of Omniscience. Finally we…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Samuele Maschio

This text is an introduction to the study of NIP (or dependent) theories. It is meant to serve two purposes. The first is to present various aspects of NIP theories and give the reader the background material needed to understand almost any…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Pierre Simon

An informal and elementary introduction to probability scoring and forecast verification and improvement, slightly extended from Significance 22:3(2025)16, which might be useful for less mathematical readers as a prologue to the classic…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-09-11 Niall MacKay

This paper deals with (finite or infinite) sequences of arbitrary independent events in some probability space. We find sharp lower bounds for the probability of a union of such events when the sum of their probabilities is given. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jürgen Grahl , Shahar Nevo

This paper presents an offering of some of the myriad connections between Combinatorics and Probability, directed in particular toward combinatorialists. The choice of material was dictated by the author's own interests, tastes and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Ross G. Pinsky

The purpose of this article is to formulate a number of probabilistic hidden-variable theorems, to provide proofs in some cases, and counterexamples to some conjectured relationships. The first theorem is the fundamental one. It asserts the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Patrick Suppes , J. Acacio de Barros , Gary Oas

Concept of entangled probability distribution of several random variables is introduced. These probability distributions describe multimode quantum states in probability representation of quantum mechanics. Example of entangled probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Vladimir N. Chernega , Olga V. Man'ko , Vladimir I. Man'ko

We extend the relation between random matrices and free probability theory from the level of expectations to the level of all correlation functions (which are classical cumulants of traces of products of the matrices). We introduce the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Benoit Collins , James A. Mingo , Piotr Sniady , Roland Speicher

An expository hitchhikers guide to some theorems in mathematics.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Oliver Knill

The computational method of parametric probability analysis is introduced. It is demonstrated how to embed logical formulas from the propositional calculus into parametric probability networks, thereby enabling sound reasoning about the…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-05-24 Joseph W. Norman

In the footsteps of the book \textit{Measure Theory and Integration By and For the Learner} of our series in Probability Theory and Statistics, we intended to devote a special volume of the very probabilistic aspects of the first cited…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Gane Samb Lo

The Principle of Complementarity of Probabilities based on of noncommutative probability is introduced.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Andrei Khrennikov , Sergei Kozyrev

We formulate and explore two basic axiomatic systems of typefree subjective probability. One of them explicates a notion of finitely additive probability. The other explicates a concept of infinitely additive probability. It is argued that…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Cezary Cieslinski , Leon Horsten , Hannes Leitgeb

Decision theories offer principled methods for making choices under various types of uncertainty. Algorithms that implement these theories have been successfully applied to a wide range of real-world problems, including materials and drug…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Agustinus Kristiadi

We introduce the notion of a stochastic probabilistic program and present a reference implementation of a probabilistic programming facility supporting specification of stochastic probabilistic programs and inference in them. Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-23 David Tolpin , Tomer Dobkin

A review of various definitions of "compatibility" expressed in terms of ordinary probability, and a discussion of the occurrence of incompatibility (and the related phenomenon of interference) in non-quantal probabilistic systems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Kirkpatrick

The probabilities of point events in space 3 + 1 obey an equation of Dirac type. Masses, moments, energies, spins, etc. are the parameters of the probability distribution of such events. The terms and equations of quark-gluon theories turn…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-02 G. Quznetsov

This paper suggests a new interpretation of the Dempster-Shafer theory in terms of probabilistic interpretation of plausibility. A new rule of combination of independent evidence is shown and its preservation of interpretation is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Mieczysław Kłopotek