FREE ENTROPY

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Abstract: Free entropy is the analogue of entropy in free probability theory. The paper is a survey of free entropy, its applications to von Neumann algebras, connections to random matrix theory and a discussion of open problems.


Free entropy is the analogue of entropy in free probability theory, namely, a quantity playing the role of entropy in a highly noncommutative probabilistic framework, with independence modelled on free products instead of tensor products. From another perspective, free entropy has also deep connections with the asymptotic behavior of large random matrices, and with operator algebras. This paper ia a survey article about free entropy, its applications to von Neumann algebras and its connections to random matrix theory, investigated in the author's series of recent works [Commun. Math. Phys. 155, 71--92 (1993; Zbl 0781.60006), Invent. Math. 118, 411--440 (1994; Zbl 0820.60001), Geom. Funct. Anal. 6, 172--199 (1996; Zbl 0856.60012), Fields Inst. Commun. 12, 293--302 (1997; Zbl 0960.46040), Invent. Math. 132, 182--227 (1998; Zbl 0930.46053) and Adv. Math. 146, 101--166 (1999; Zbl 0956.46045)]. This includes a variety of topics, such as the matricial microstates approach to the free entropy \(\chi(X_1, \dots, X_n)\), the free entropy dimension \(\delta(X_1, \dots, X_n)\), the infinitesimal approach to free entropy, the conditional free Fisher information \(\Phi^* ( X_1, \dots, X_n : B)\), the mutual free information and the derivation \(\delta_{A : B}\), a variational problem for free entropy, and the free Fisher information relative to a completely positive map, among others.




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