A noncommutative de Finetti theorem for Boolean independence

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2015.07.007MaRDI QIDQ2517322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weihua Liu

Publication date 17 August 2015

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1772

zbMATH Keywords

Boolean independence de Finetti theorem exchangeability noncommutative probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative probability and statistics (46L53) Exchangeability for stochastic processes (60G09)

Abstract: We introduce a family of quantum semigroups and their natural coactions on noncommutative polynomials. We present three invariance conditions, associated with these coactions, for the joint distribution of sequences of selfadjoint noncommutative random variables. For one of the invariance conditions, we prove that the joint distribution of an infinite sequence of noncommutative random variables satisfies it is equivalent to the fact that the sequence of the random variables are identically distributed and boolean independent with respect to the conditional expectation onto its tail algebra. This is a boolean analogue of de Finetti theorem on exchangeable sequences. In the end of the paper, we will discuss the other two invariance conditions which lead to some trivial results.

Review text

The classical de Finetti theorem characterises infinite sequences of random variables which are exchangeable (i.e., whose distribution is invariant under permutations) as those which are conditionally independent under the tail \(\sigma\)-algebra. In [Commun. Math. Phys. 291, No. 2, 473--490 (2009; Zbl 1183.81099)], \textit{C. Köstler} and \textit{R. Speicher} showed that an infinite sequence of noncommutative random variables, that is, a sequence of self-adjoint operators in a von Neumann algebra \(M\) with a faithful normal state \(\varphi\), is quantum exchangeable (has distribution invariant under the action of the quantum permutation groups of Wang) if and only if it is conditionally freely distributed with respect to the tail von Neumann algebra. The paper under review is concerned with the analysis of similar phenomena in the framework of Boolean independence. As the latter is naturally formulated in the language of not necessarily unital algebras, there are several technical difficulties that need be overcome. In particular, the assumption of faithfulness of the initial state need be relaxed to non-degeneracy. To define Boolean exchangeability, the author introduces a new family of quantum semigroups, providing the appropriate notion of distributional invariance, and he shows later that, thus understood, Boolean exchangeability of an infinite sequence of noncommutative random variables is equivalent to its conditional Boolean independence with respect to a tail von Neumann algebra (again, the Boolean context forces distinguishing between the case of a `unital' and `non-unital' tail algebras). The author also discusses two other possible notions of Boolean exchangeability, showing that they yield trivial outcomes.

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