English

On a linearization trick

Operator Algebras 2023-04-05 v3 Functional Analysis Probability

Abstract

In several situations, mainly involving a self-adjoint set of unitary generators of a CC^*-algebra, we show that any matrix polynomial in the generators and the unit that is in the open unit ball can be written as a product of matrix polynomials of degree 1 also in the open unit ball.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.03742,
  title  = {On a linearization trick},
  author = {Gilles Pisier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03742},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v2 minor improvements mainly in the introduction

R2 v1 2026-06-23T00:18:21.643Z