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Fuglede-Kadison determinants of matrix-valued semicircular elements and capacity estimates

Operator Algebras 2024-06-25 v1 Functional Analysis Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We calculate the Fuglede-Kadison determinant of arbitrary matrix-valued semicircular operators in terms of the capacity of the corresponding covariance mapping. We also improve a lower bound by Garg, Gurvits, Oliveira, and Widgerson on this capacity, by making it dimension-independent.

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@article{arxiv.2406.15922,
  title  = {Fuglede-Kadison determinants of matrix-valued semicircular elements and capacity estimates},
  author = {Tobias Mai and Roland Speicher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15922},
  year   = {2024}
}
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