Product formulas on posets, Wick products, and a correction for the $q$-Poisson process

Abstract: We give an example showing that the product and linearization formulas for the Wick product versions of the $q$-Charlier polynomials in (Anshelevich 2004) are incorrect. Next, we observe that the relation between monomials and several families of Wick polynomials is governed by "incomplete" versions of familiar posets. We compute M\"obius functions for these posets, and prove a general poset product formula. These provide new proofs and new inversion and product formulas for Wick product versions of Hermite, Chebyshev, Charlier, free Charlier, and Laguerre polynomials. By different methods, we prove inversion formulas for the Wick product versions of the free Meixner polynomials.