A unified approach to infinitesimal freeness with amalgamation

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the infinitesimal freeness in the operator-valued framework, and we show that the operator-valued infinitesimal (OVI) free independence is equivalent to the operator-valued free independence over an algebra of [Formula: see text] upper triangular matrices. We introduce the notion of OVI cumulants and investigate its properties, and we then deduce that the OVI freeness is equivalent to the vanishing of our mixed cumulants. Moreover, we derive the formula for obtaining the free additive and multiplicative convolutions within the realm of OVI freeness.