Discrete chaotic calculus and covariance identities

Abstract

We show that for the binomial process (or Bernoulli random walk) the orthogonal functionals constructed in Kroeker, J.P. (1980) "Wiener analysis of functionals of a Markov chain: application to neural transformations of random signals", Biol. Cybernetics 36 , 243-248, [14] for Markov chains can be expressed using the Krawtchouk polynomials, and by iterated stochastic integrals. This allows to construct a chaotic calculus based on gradient and divergence operators and structure equations, and to establish a Clark representation formula. As an application we obtain simple infinite dimensional proofs of covariance identities on the discrete cube.