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Noncommutative functions are weakly algebraic on operatorial polynomial polyhedra

Functional Analysis 2021-08-26 v1

Abstract

An operatorial polynomial polyhedron is a set of the form Bδ(B(H))={XB(H)d:δ(X)<1}B_{\delta}(\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H}))=\{X\in \mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})^d : \Vert\delta(X)\Vert<1\} where B(H)\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H}) denotes the space of bounded operators on a separable Hilbert space H\mathcal{H}, and δ\delta is a matrix of polynomials in dd noncommuting variables. These sets appear throughout the literature on noncommutative function theory. While much of what has been written involves matricial polynomial polyhedra, there do exist δ\delta such that the associated Bδ(B(H))B_{\delta}(\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})) is non-empty but contains no matrix points. Algebraicity of operatorial noncommutative functions has been established in the case that the domain Bδ(B(H))B_{\delta}(\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})) is a balanced set (hence contains the matrix point 0). In this paper, we dispense of such assumptions on the domain and prove that an operatorial noncommutative function on any Bδ(B(H))B_{\delta}(\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})) is weakly algebraic in the sense that its value at each operator tuple ZZ lies in the weak operator topology closure of the unital algebra generated by the coordinates of ZZ.

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@article{arxiv.2108.11356,
  title  = {Noncommutative functions are weakly algebraic on operatorial polynomial polyhedra},
  author = {Mark E. Mancuso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11356},
  year   = {2021}
}
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