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ABSTRACT. In this paper we investigate the properties of the free Sheffer systems, which are certain families of martingale polynomials with respect to the free Lévy processes. First, we classify such families that consist of orthogonal polynomials; these are the free analogs of the Meixner systems. Next, we show that the fluctuations around free convolution semigroups have as principal directions the polynomials whose derivatives are martingale polynomials. Finally, we indicate how Rota’s finite operator calculus can be modified for the free context.

ABSTRACT. This paper summarizes some known results about Appell polynomials and investigates their various analogs. The primary of these are the free Appell polynomials. In the multivariate case, they can be considered as natural analogs of the Appell polynomials among polynomials in noncommuting variables. They also fit well into the framework of free probability. For the free Appell polynomials, a number of combinatorial and “diagram ” formulas are proven, such as the formulas for their linearization coefficients. An explicit formula for their generating function is obtained. These polynomials are also martingales for free Lévy processes. For more general free Sheffer families, a necessary condition for pseudo-orthogonality is given. Another family investigated are the Kailath-Segall polynomials. These are multivariate polynomials, which share with the Appell polynomials nice combinatorial properties, but are always orthogonal. Their origins lie in the Fock space representations, or in the theory of multiple stochastic integrals. Diagram formulas are proven for these polynomials as well, even in the q-deformed case. 1.

In this paper, we generalize Haagerup’s inequality [H] (on convolution norm in the free group) to a very general context of R-diagonal elements in a tracial von Neumann algebra; moreover, we show that in this “holomorphic” setting, the inequality is greatly improved from its originial form. We give combinatorial proofs of two important special cases of our main result, and then generalize these techniques. En route, we prove a number of moment and cumulant estimates for R-diagonal elements that are of independent interest. Finally, we use our strong Haagerup inequality to prove a strong ultracontractivity theorem, generalizing and improving the one in [Bi2].

Abstract. It is shown that if one keeps track of crossings, Feynman diagrams can be used to compute q-Wick products and normal products in terms of each other. 1.

ABSTRACT. We continue the investigation of the Lévy processes on a q-deformed full Fock space started in [1]. First, we show that the vacuum vector is cyclic and separating for the algebra generated by such a process. Next, we describe a chaotic representation property in terms of multiple integrals with respect to diagonal measures, in the style of Nualart and Schoutens. We define stochastic integration with respect to these processes, and calculate their combinatorial stochastic measures. Finally, we show that they generate infinite von Neumann algebras. 1.

Abstract. We show that stochastic processes with linear conditional expectations and quadratic conditional variances are Markov, and their transition probabilities are related to a three-parameter family of orthogonal polynomials which generalize the Meixner polynomials. Special cases of these processes are known to arise from the non-commutative generalizations of the Lévy processes. 1.

We prove that the von Neumann algebras generated by n q-Gaussian elements, are factors for n � 2. 1

ABSTRACT. We prove an analog of Janson’s strong hypercontractivity inequality in a class of non-commutative “holomorphic ” algebras. Our setting is the q-Gaussian algebras Γq associated to the q-Fock spaces of Bozejko, Kümmerer and Speicher, for q ∈ [−1, 1]. We construct subalgebras Hq ⊂ Γq, a q-Segal-Bargmann transform, and prove Janson’s strong hypercontractivity L 2 (Hq) → L r (Hq) for r an even integer. 1.

Symmetric Hilbert spaces such as the bosonic and the fermionic Fock spaces over some `one particle space' K are formed by certain symmetrization procedures performed on the full Fock space. We investigate alternative ways of symmetrization by building on Joyal's notion of a combinatorial species. Any such species F gives rise to an endofunctor F of the category of Hilbert spaces with contractions mapping a Hilbert space K to a symmetric Hilbert space F (K) with the same symmetry as the species F . A general framework for annihilation and creation operators on these spaces is developed, and compared to the generalised Brownian motions of R. Speicher and M. Bo _ zejko. As a corollary we nd that the commutation relation a i a j a j a i = f(N) ij with Na i a i N = a i admits a realization on a symmetric Hilbert space whenever f has a power series with infinite radius of convergence and positive coefficients.