The essentially commutative dilations of dynamical semigroups on \(M_ n\) (Q1092499)

For identity and trace preserving one-parameter semigroups \(\{T_ t\}_{t\geq 0}\) on the \(n\times n\)-matrices \(M_ n\) we obtain a complete description of their ``essentially commutative'' dilations, i.e., dilations, which can be constructed on a tensor product of \(M_ n\) by a commutative \(W^*\)-algebra. We show that the existence of an essentially commutative dilation for \(T_ t\) is equivalent to the existence of a convolution semigroup of probability measures \(\rho_ t\) on the group \(Aut(M_ n)\) of automorphisms on \(M_ n\) such that \(T_ t=\int_{Aut(M_ n)}\alpha d\rho_ t(\alpha)\), and this condition is then characterised in terms of the generator of \(T_ t\). There is a one-to-one correspondence between essentially commutative Markov dilations, weak*-continuous convolution semigroups of probability measures and certain forms of the generator of \(T_ t.\) In particular, certain dynamical semigroups which do not satisfy the detailed balance condition are shown to admit a dilation. This provides the first example of a dilation for such a semigroup.