Towards a classification of multi-faced independence: a representation-theoretic approach

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Abstract: We attack the classification problem of multi-faced independences, the first non-trivial example being Voiculescu's bi-freeness. While the present paper does not achieve a complete classification, it formalizes the idea of lifting an operator on a pre-Hilbert space in a "universal" way to a larger product space, which is key for the construction of (old and new) examples. It will be shown how universal lifts can be used to construct very well-behaved (multi-faced) independences in general. Furthermore, we entirely classify universal lifts to the tensor product and to the free product of pre-Hilbert spaces. Our work brings to light surprising new examples of 2-faced independences. Most noteworthy, for many known 2-faced independences, we find that they admit continuous deformations within the class of 2-faced independences, showing in particular that, in contrast with the single faced case, this class is infinite (and even uncountable).


The present paper is devoted to the study of multi-faced notions of noncommutative independence, motivated by the bi-freeness of Voiculescu. Independence is understood here in the sense of quantum probability, as a systematic prescription providing a way of computing noncommutative joint distributions of random vectors. The corresponding single-faced independences were classified in [\textit{N.~Muraki}, Infin. Dimens. Anal. Quantum Probab. Relat. Top. 6, No.~3, 337--371 (2003; Zbl 1053.81057)]. The multi-faced situation turns out to be more complicated, and the authors do not provide a full classification, but construct infinitely many of pairwise different examples. The approach is effectively purely algebraic, combining combinatorial and categorical methods and is based on the study of various possible functorial ways of extending pairs of operators to tensor/free products of Hilbert spaces.



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