Madalin Guta, Hans Maassen
Generalised Brownian motion and second quantisation
(126K, latex 2e with 5 figures)

ABSTRACT.  A new approach to the generalised Brownian motion introduced by 
M. Bo\.zejko and R. Speicher is described, 
based on symmetry rather than deformation. 
The symmetrisation principle is provided by Joyal's 
notions of tensorial and combinatorial species. 
Any such species V gives rise to an endofunctor F_V 
of the category of Hilbert spaces with contractions 
mapping a Hilbert space H 
to a symmetric Hilbert space F_V(H) 
with the same symmetry as the species V. 
A general framework for annihilation and creation operators 
on these spaces is developed and shown to give 
vacuum expectations as prescribed by Bo\.zejko and Speicher. 
The existence of the second quantisation 
as functor from Hilbert spaces to von Neumann algebras with 
completely positive maps is investigated. 
For a certain one parameter interpolation between the classical and the free 
Brownian motion it is shown that the ``field algebras'' Gamma(K) are 
type II_1 factors when K is infinite dimensional.