Unification of Boolean, monotone, anti-monotone, and tensor independence and Lévy processes (Q1395398): Difference between revisions

This paper is based on results of \textit{M. Schürmann} [``White noise on bialgebras'' (1993; Zbl 0773.60100) and in: Probability measures on groups and related structures. XI, 332--356 (1995; Zbl 0920.60058)] who formulated a theory of non-commutative Lévy processes. The central point is the construction of involutive bialgebras or Hopf algebras which allows to define a suitable convolution. So it is possible to give a unified formulation for non-commutative Lévy processes based on different definitions of independence of quantum increments: free, Boolean, or tensor products. Recently, \textit{N. Muraki} [Monotone convolution and monotone Lévy processes (Preprint, 2000), and Infinite Dimens. Anal., Quant. Probab. Relat. Topics 4, 39--58 (2001)], and other authors have considered Lévy processes based on monotone and anti-monotone independence, and it has been conjectured that these also can be included into Schürmann's theory. The present paper gives an explicit construction affirming this conjecture. Moreover, it is shown that the semigroups correponding to tensor, Boolean, monotone, and anti-monotone convolutions consist in positive transformations if and only if the infinitesimal generators are conditionally positive. A representation theorem allows to construct non-commutative Lévy processes on boson Fock spaces. Several examples are given.