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The normalized numerical range and the Davis-Wielandt shell

Functional Analysis 2017-12-05 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

For a given nn-by-nn matrix AA, its {\em normalized numerical range} FN(A)F_N(A) is defined as the range of the function fN,A ⁣:x(xAx)/(\normAx\normx)f_{N,A}\colon x\mapsto (x^*Ax)/(\norm{Ax}\cdot\norm{x}) on the complement of kerA\ker A. We provide an explicit description of this set for the case when AA is normal or n=2n=2. This extension of earlier results for particular cases of 22-by-22 matrices (by Gevorgyan) and essentially Hermitian matrices of arbitrary size (by A. Stoica and one of the authors) was achieved due to the fresh point of view at FN(A)F_N(A) as the image of the Davis-Wielandt shell \JNR(A)\JNR(A) under a certain non-linear mapping h ⁣:R3\Ch\colon\R^3\mapsto\C.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1712.01070,
  title  = {The normalized numerical range and the Davis-Wielandt shell},
  author = {Brian Lins and Ilya M. Spitkovsky and Siyu Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01070},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages, 4 figures

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