Free probability is a noncommutative analogue of the probability theory introduced by Dan-Virgil Voiculescu around 1990 and having some precursors in earlier works on random matrices by Freeman Dyson and others.
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Terrence Tao, notes on free probability, blog entry
wikipedia free probability
Michael Hartglass, Free product -algebras associated to graphs, free differentials, and laws of loops, arxiv/1509.02553
Roland Friedrich, John McKay, Formal groups, Witt vectors and free probability, arxiv/1204.6522; Homogeneous Lie groups and quantum probability, arxiv/1506.07089
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