Lévy-Khintchine decompositions for generating functionals on algebras associated to universal compact quantum groups

Abstract

We study the first and second cohomology groups of the $^*$-algebras of the universal unitary and orthogonal quantum groups $U_F^+$ and $O_F^+$. This provides valuable information for constructing and classifying Lévy processes on these quantum groups, as pointed out by Schürmann. In the case when all eigenvalues of $F^*F$ are distinct, we show that these $^*$-algebras have the properties (GC), (NC), and (LK) introduced by Schürmann and studied recently by Franz, Gerhold and Thom. In the degenerate case $F=I_d$, we show that they do not have any of these properties. We also compute the second cohomology group of $U_d^+$ with trivial coefficients -- $H^2(U_d^+,{}_ε\Bbb{C}_ε)\cong \Bbb{C}^{d^2-1}$ -- and construct an explicit basis for the corresponding second cohomology group for $O_d^+$ (whose dimension was known earlier thanks to the work of Collins, Härtel and Thom).

30 pages, v4 has a slightly modified title and contains several presentational changes (main mathematical contents remain unchanged). The paper will appear in Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics