Quantum probability and applications V : proceedings of the fourth workshop, held in Heidelberg, FRG, Sept. 26-30, 1988 / L. Accardi, W. von Waldenfels

Contents: Luigi Accardi, Alberto Frigerio and Yun Gang Lu, Quantum Langevin equation in the weak coupling limit (pp. 1–16); L. Accardi and Yun Gang Lu, On the low density limit of boson models (pp. 17–53); L. Accardi and R. L. Hudson, Quantum stochastic flows and nonabelian cohomology (pp. 54–69); David Applebaum, Quantum diffusions on involutive algebras (pp. 70–85); Alberto Barchielli, Some Markov semigroups in quantum probability (pp. 86–98); Viacheslav Belavkin [V. P. Belavkin], A quantum stochastic calculus in Fock space of input and output nondemolition processes (pp. 99–125); Carlo Cecchini and Burkhard Kümmerer, Stochastic transitions on preduals of von Neumann algebras (pp. 126–130); F. Fagnola, Quantum stochastic calculus and a boson Levy theorem (pp. 131–144); Karl-Heinz Fichtner and Uwe Schreiter, Locally independent boson systems (pp. 145–161); Alberto Frigerio, Time-inhomogeneous and nonlinear quantum evolutions (pp. 162–176); Alberto Frigerio, Erratum: "Quantum Poisson processes: physical motivations and applications'' [in Quantum probability and applications, III (Oberwolfach, 1987), 107–127, Lecture Notes in Math., 1303, Springer, Berlin, 1988; MR0985815 (90b:81024)] (pp. 177); D. Goderis, A. Verbeure and P. Vets, Quantum central limit and coarse graining (pp. 178–193); Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt, An open problem in quantum shot noise (pp. 194–203); Ewa Hensz, A method of operator estimation and a strong law of large numbers in von Neumann algebras (pp. 204–210); A. S. Holevo, An analog of the Itô decomposition for multiplicative processes with values in a Lie group (pp. 211–215); R. L. Hudson and P. Shepperson, Stochastic dilations of quantum dynamical semigroups using one-dimensional quantum stochastic calculus (pp. 216–218); Gert-Ludwig Ingold and Hermann Grabert, Sluggish decay of preparation effects in low temperature quantum systems (pp. 219–230); Ryszard Jajte, Almost sure convergence of iterates of contractions in noncommutative L2-spaces (pp. 231–246); J. M. Lindsay and H. Maassen, Duality transform as ∗-algebraic isomorphism (pp. 247–250); J. M. Lindsay and K. R. Parthasarathy, Rigidity of the Poisson convolution (pp. 251–262); H. Maassen, A discrete entropic uncertainty relation (pp. 263–266); B. Nachtergaele, Working with quantum Markov states and their classical analogues (pp. 267–285); Heide Narnhofer, Dynamical entropy, quantum K-systems and clustering (pp. 286–295); K. R. Parthasarathy, A continuous time version of Stinespring's theorem on completely positive maps (pp. 296–300); Adam Paszkiewicz, The topology of the convergence in probability in a W∗-algebra is normal (pp. 301–310); Dénes Petz, First steps towards a Donsker and Varadhan theory in operator algebras (pp. 311–319); Sylvia Pulmannová, Quantum conditional probability spaces (pp. 320–325); Paul Robinson, Quantum diffusions on the rotation algebras and the quantum Hall effect (pp. 326–333); Jean-Luc Sauvageot, Quantum Dirichlet forms, differential calculus and semigroups (pp. 334–346); Michael Schürmann, Gaussian states on bialgebras (pp. 347–367); Geoffrey L. Sewell, Quantum macrostatistics and irreversible thermodynamics (pp. 368–383); Alexei G. Shuhov and Yuri M. Suhov, Correction to the hydrodynamical approximation for groups of Bogoljubov transformations (pp. 384–392); Stephen J. Summers, Bell's inequalities and quantum field theory (pp. 393–413).