Markovian cocycles on operator algebras adapted to a Fock filtration (Q1840574)

The introduction of a Feller-type condition allows the study of Markovian cocycles adapted to a Fock filtration to be extended from the von Neumann algebras to \(C^*\)-algebras. It is shown that every such cocycle, which along with its adjoint cocycle is pointwise strongly continuous and whose associated semigroups are norm-continuous, weakly satisfies a quantum stochastic differential equation (QSDE). The matrix of coefficients of this equation may thereby be considered as the generator of the cocycle. The QSDE is strongly satisfied in any of the following cases: when the cocycle is completely positive and contractive, or the driving quantum noise is finite-dimensional, or the \(C^*\)-algebra is finite-dimensional and the cocycle generator is bounded. Applying the algebra results to Fock-adapted Markovian cocycles on a Hilbert space, the authors obtain similar characterisations. In particular, a contraction cocycle whose Markov semigroup is norm continuous strongly satisfies a QSDE.