THE FIVE INDEPENDENCES AS QUASI-UNIVERSAL PRODUCTS

A notion of "quasi-universal product" for algebraic probability spaces is introduced as a generalization of Speicher's "universal product". It is proved that there exist only five quasi-universal products, namely, tensor product, free product, Boolean product, monotone product and anti-monotone product. This result means that, in a sense, there exist only five independences which have nice properties of "associativity" and "(quasi-)universality".