Free Stein kernels and an improvement of the free logarithmic Sobolev inequality

We introduce a free version of the Stein kernel, relative to a semicircular law. We use it to obtain a free counterpart of the HSI inequality of Ledoux, Peccatti and Nourdin, which is an improvement of the free logarithmic Sobolev inequality of Biane and Speicher, as well as a rate of convergence in the (multivariate) entropic free Central Limit Theorem. We also compute the free Stein kernels for several relevant families of self-adjoint operators

Free monotone transport for infinite variables

We extend the free monotone transport theorem of Guionnet and Shlyakhtenko to the case of infinite variables. As a first application, we provide a criterion for when mixed $q$-Gaussian algebras are isomorphic to $L(\mathbb{F}_\infty)$; namely, when the structure array $Q$ of a mixed $q$-Gaussian algebra has uniformly small entries that decay sufficiently rapidly. Here a mixed $q$-Gaussian algebra with structure array $Q=(q_{ij})_{i,j\in\mathbb{N}}$ is the von Neumann algebra generated by $X_n^Q=l_n+l_n^*, n\in\mathbb{N}$ and $(l_n)$ are the Fock space representations of the commutation relation $l_i^*l_j-q_{ij}l_jl_i^*=\delta_{i=j}, i,j\in\mathbb{N}$, $-1<q_{ij}=q_{ji}<1$