Operators with a given part of the numerical range (Q2810995)

It is well known that \(\overline {W(A)}\), closure of the numerical range, always contains the spectrum \(\sigma (A)\) for any bounded linear operator \(A\). The authors generalize this in the sense that, given a bounded closed convex subset \(E \subset \mathbb {C}\), they study the properties of the set of operators \(A \in \mathbb {B}(\mathcal {H})\) such that \(E \subset \overline {W(A)}\), i.e., they study \({\mathcal {W}}_E = \bigl \{A \in \mathbb {B}(\mathcal {H}) \: E \subset \overline {W(A)}\bigr \}\). They prove that \({\mathcal {W}}_E\) is non-empty, uniformly closed and, if \(\operatorname{dim}(\mathbb {H}) \geq k+ 2\), then \({\mathcal {W}}_E\) is \(k\)-transitive. They also prove many other interesting properties of \({\mathcal {W}}_E\).