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A tracial Nullstellensatz

Rings and Algebras 2018-04-27 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

The main result of this note is a tracial Nullstellensatz for free noncommutative polynomials evaluated at tuples of matrices of all sizes: Suppose f_1,...,f_r,f are free polynomials, and tr(f) vanishes whenever all tr(f_j) vanish. Then either 1 or f is a linear combination of the f_j modulo sums of commutators.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1538,
  title  = {A tracial Nullstellensatz},
  author = {Igor Klep and Špela Špenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1538},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages

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