Generalised Brownian motion and second quantisation

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Abstract: A new approach to the generalised Brownian motion introduced by M. Bozejko and R. Speicher is described, based on symmetry rather than deformation. The symmetrisation principle is provided by Joyal's notions of tensorial and combinatorial species. Any such species V gives rise to an endofunctor F_V of the category of Hilbert spaces with contractions. A generalised Brownian motion is an algebra of creation and annihilation operators acting on F_V(H) for arbitrary Hilbert spaces H and having a prescription for the calculation of vacuum expectations in terms of a function t on pair partitions. The positivity is encoded by a *-semigroup of "broken pair partitions" whose representation space with respect to t is V. The existence of the second quantisation as functor Gamma_t from Hilbert spaces to noncommutative probability spaces is proved to be equivalent to the multiplicative property of the function t. For a certain one parameter interpolation between the fermionic and the free Brownian motion it is shown that the ``field algebras Gamma(K) are type II_1 factors when K is infinite dimensional.


The authors discuss the results of generalised Brownian motions. Generalised Brownian motions are representations with respect to special Gaussian states on free algebras over real Hilbert spaces. The existence of the second quantisation as functor \(\varGamma_t\) from Hilbert spaces to noncommutative probability spaces is investigated for functions \({\mathbf t}\) with the multiplicative property. For a certain one parameter interpolation between the fermonic and the free Brownian motion it is shown that the field algebras \(\varGamma({\mathcal K})\) are type \textbf{II}\(_1\) factors when \(\mathcal K\) is infinite-dimensional.











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