Logarithmic residues in Banach algebras (Q1330847)

One of the corollaries of the classical argument principle for analytic functions reads: if the logarithmic residue \[ {1\over {2\pi i}} \int_{\partial D} {{f'(z)} \over {f(z)}} dz \] over the boundary of a domain \({\mathcal D}\subset \mathbb{C}\) vanishes, then \(f\) does not vanish in \({\mathcal D}\), i.e., \(f(z)\) is invertible in \(\mathbb{C}\) for all \(z\in{\mathcal D}\). The paper under review investigates in great depth whether the above assertion remains valid for general Banach algebra-valued functions. Although for all commutative algebras and some other algebras the results holds, it fails in general. Related counterexamples are constructed in \S4.