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Inmathematics, theBrown measure of an operator in a finitefactor is aprobability measure on the complex plane which may be viewed as an analog of thespectral counting measure (based onalgebraic multiplicity) of matrices.
It is named afterLawrence G. Brown.
Let be a finite factor with the canonical normalized trace and let be the identity operator. For every operator the functionis asubharmonic function and itsLaplacian in thedistributional sense is a probability measure onwhich is called the Brown measure of Here the Laplace operator is complex.
The subharmonic function can also be written in terms of theFuglede−Kadison determinant as follows