Spectrally additive maps on Banach algebras (Q6111800)

Let \(A\) and \(B\) be complex unital Banach algebras, and let \(\sigma(x)\) and \(\sigma'(x)\) denote the spectrum of \(x\in A\) and its polynomially convex hull, respectively. A surjective map \(\varphi: A\rightarrow B\) is called spectrally additive if it has the property \(\sigma(x + y) = \sigma(\varphi(x) + \varphi(y))\) for each \(x, y \in A\) and fully spectrally additive if it has the property \(\sigma'(x + y) = \sigma'(\varphi(x) + \varphi(y))\) for each \(x, y \in A\). Several equivalent conditions that the rank of a non-zero element \(a \in A\) is one and many properties of a fully spectrally additive map are given.