Two-state free Brownian motions

摘要

In a two-state free probability space (A,φ,ψ), we define an algebraic two-state free Brownian motion to be a process with two-state freely independent increments whose two-state free cumulant generating function R~(φ,ψ)(z) is quadratic. Note that a priori, the distribution of the process with respect to the second state ψ is arbitrary. We show, however, that if A is a von Neumann algebra, the states φ,ψ are normal, and φ is faithful, then there is only a one-parameter family of such processes. Moreover, with the exception of the actual free Brownian motion (corresponding to φ=ψ), these processes only exist for finite time.