Existence of quantum diffusions (Q1117585)

A quantum diffusion \((A,A^ t,j)\) comprises of unital *-algebras A and \(A'\) and a family of identity preserving *-homomorphisms \(j=(j_ t:t\geq 0)\) from A into \(A'\). Also j satisfies a system of quantum stochastic differential equations \[ dj_ t(x_ 0)=j_ t(\mu^ i_ j(x_ 0))dM^ j_ i,\quad j_ 0(x_ 0)=x_ 0\otimes I \] for all \(x_ 0\in A\) where \(\mu^ i_ j\), \(1\leq i,j\leq N\) are maps from A to itself and are known as the structure maps. An existence proof is given for a class of quantum diffusions, for which the structure maps are bounded in the operator norm sense. A solution to the system of quantum stochastic differential equations is first produced using a variation of the Picard iteration method. Another application of this method shows that the solution is a quantum diffusion.