Logarithmic residues of analytic Banach algebra valued functions possessing a simply meromorphic inverse (Q5957204)

Let \(B\) be a complex Banach algebra with unity. If \(f\) is a \(B\)-valued function with domain \(\Delta\) in \({\mathbb C}\) and \(f'\) denotes the derivative of \(f\), then the left, respectively, right, logarithmic derivative of \(f\) is the function given by \(f'(\lambda)f^{-1}(\lambda)\) and \(f^{-1}(\lambda)f'(\lambda)\), respectively, the domain being the set of all \(\lambda\in \Delta\) such that \(f(\lambda)\) is invertible. Logarithmic residues of \(f\) are contour integrals of logarithmic derivatives. A \(B\)-valued function is called simply meromorphic if it is meromorphic with poles of order \(1\). The paper under review is concerned with logarithmic residues of \(B\)-valued functions \(f(\lambda)\) possessing a simply meromorphic inverse \(f^{-1}(\lambda)\). For such functions the logarithmic residues are identified as the sums of idempotents. With the help of this observation, the issue of left versus right logarithmic residues is investigated, both for connected and nonconnected underlying Cauchy domains. Some (counter)examples are considered. In particular, one of the counterexamples exhibits a function whose left logarithmic residue vanishes while its right logarithmic residue does not; another counterexample shows that logarithmic residues in matrix algebras can fail to belong to the closure of the algebra generated by the idempotents.