Cocycles for one-parameter flows of \(\mathfrak B(\mathfrak h)\) (Q813934)

A cocycle \(\mathcal C\) for an \(E_0\)-semigroup \(\alpha\) is a one-parameter strongly continuous family \(\{ C(t):t\geq 0\}\) of operators for which \(C(t+s)=C(t)C(s)\). The cocycle \(\mathcal C\) is said to be a local cocycle if \(C(t)\in \alpha_t ({\mathcal B}({\mathcal H}))' \quad\forall t\geq 0\). In the present paper, for the first time, some information about the structure of the local cocycles of a family of \(E_0\)-semigroups of type \(II_0\) is obtained. For a family of examples, a detailed description of the structure of the local cocycles, including the multiplicative structure of the group of local unitary cocycles, is given. The examples are obtained as the minimal dilations of a family of \(CP\)-semigroups on \({\mathcal B}(L^2 (0,\infty ))\) known as \(CP\)-flows. There are new results on the structure of local cocycles of minimal dilations of \(CP\)-flows.