Time-orthogonal unitary dilations and noncommutative Feynman-Kac formulae. II (Q1064524)

In an earlier paper [Commun. Math. Phys. 83, 261-280 (1982; Zbl 0485.46038)] a dilation was constructed of an arbitrary strongly continuous self-adjoint contraction semigroup in a Hilbert space \({\mathfrak h}\), second quantisation of which in Boson Fock space over \({\mathfrak h}\) gives rise to a Feynman-Kac type formula. In this paper corresponding Feynman-Kac formulae are found firstly for when Boson is replaced by Fermion second quantisation, and secondly for when Fock is replaced by second quantisation corresponding to an extremal universally invariant state of the CCR algebra. In the latter case it is found to be necessary to restrict the infinitesimal generator of the semigroup to be a trace class operator. Although the dilation constructed in these papers is a two parameter evolution rather than a oneparameter group dilation, its Euclidean covariance property ensures that there is an associated group dilation. Thus the time orthogonal construction may be compared with other universal constructions of unitary dilations of contraction semigroups, to which it is of course equivalent. See for example \textit{B. Kümmerer} and \textit{W. Schröder}, A new construction of unitary dilations: singular coupling to white noise, Lect. Notes. Math. 1136, 332-347 (1985).