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Concavification of free entropy

Operator Algebras 2012-11-13 v2 Probability

Abstract

We introduce a modification of Voiculescu's free entropy which coincides with the liminf variant of Voiculescu's free entropy on extremal states, but is a concave upper semi-continuous function on the trace state space. We also extend the orbital free entropy of Hiai, Miyamoto and Ueda to non-hyperfinite multivariables and prove freeness in case of additivity of Voiculescu's entropy (or vanishing of our extended orbital entropy).

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@article{arxiv.1201.0716,
  title  = {Concavification of free entropy},
  author = {Philippe Biane and Yoann Dabrowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0716},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

28 pages, final version : details added in several proofs and relations to other variants of free entropy explained

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