SLIDE 4 Preliminaries in Free Probability Block modified matrices Operator-Valued free probability Explicit solutions
Probability Spaces
Definition
1 A non-commutative probability space is a pair (A, φ)
where A is a unitary complex algebra and φ is a linear functional φ : A → C such that φ(1A) = 1.
2 A non-commutative random variable (or random variable)
is just an element a ∈ A.
3 If there is a measure µa in C with compact support, such that
zkzlµa(dz) = φ(ak(a∗)l), for all k, l ∈ N, we call µa the *-distribution of a.
Octavio Arizmendi CIMAT Block modified Random Matrices