Stochastic processes and operator calculus on quantum groups

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The book presents recent developments in the theory of stochastic processes and operator calulus on quantum groups. It is self-contained; after an introduction stochastic processes and operator calculus on Lie groups (Chapter 2), the necessary prerequisites on quantum groups (= bialgebras or Hopf algebras) are recalled in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 contains the basic terminology of quantum probability and the definition and fundamental properties of Lévy processes on involutive bialgebras, as introduced by \textit{L. Accardi, M.\ Schürmann}, and \textit{W. von Waldenfels} [Math. Z. 198, No. 4, 451-477 (1988; Zbl 0627.60014)], see also \textit{M. Schürmann} [``White noise on bialgebras (1993; Zbl 0773.60100)]. In Chapter 5 it is shown that these processes have a natural quantum Markov structure and this property is used to construct classical versions, i.e.\ classical stochastic processes that have the same time-ordered moments. Several examples, including the famous Azéma martingale, are presented with detailed computations. In Chapters 6 and 7 it is shown that the densities and shifted moment systems (Appell systems) of Lévy processes on bialgebras satisfy certain evolution equations, and this fact is used to construct solutions of these evolution equations. The next two chapters (Chapters 8 and 9) deal with the characterization of special probability laws and convolution semigroups by the coalgebraic structure. In Chapter 8 the functionals and the convolution semigroups that satisfy an analog of the Bernstein property are determined. Chapter 9 studies the question to what extend a probability distribution is characterized by its symmetrizations, known in the literature as the problem of phase retrieval. In the last chapter various weak limit theorems are presented.











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