Noncommutative plurisubharmonic polynomials. II: Local assumptions

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Abstract: We say that a symmetric noncommutative polynomial in the noncommutative free variables (x_1, x_2, ..., x_g) is noncommutative plurisubharmonic on a noncommutative open set if it has a noncommutative complex hessian that is positive semidefinite when evaluated on open sets of matrix tuples of sufficiently large size. In this paper, we show that if a noncommutative polynomial is noncommutative plurisubharmonic on a noncommutative open set, then the polynomial is actually noncommutative plurisubharmonic everywhere and has the form p = sum f_j^T f_j + sum k_j k_j^T + F + F^T where the sums are finite and f_j, k_j, F are all noncommutative analytic. In the paper by Greene, Helton, and Vinnikov, it is shown that if p is noncommutative plurisubharmonic everywhere, then p has the form above. In other words, the paper by Greene, Helton, and Vinnikov makes a global assumption while the current paper makes a local assumption, but both reach the same conclusion. This paper uses a Gram-like matrix representation of noncommutative polynomials. A careful analysis of this Gram matrix plus the main theorem in the paper by Greene, Helton, and Vinnikov ultimately force the form in the equation above.


Let \({\mathbb R}\langle x,x^T\rangle\) be the ring of noncommutative polynomials over \(\mathbb R\) in the noncommuting variables \(x_1,\dots,x_g\), \(x_1^T,\dots,x_g^T\). Elements of this ring are called nc polynomials. The variables \(x_j^T\) are formal transposes of the variables \(x_j\). An nc polynomial is called nc analytic if it contains only the variables \(x_j\) and none of the transposed variables \(x_j^T\). An nc polynomial \(p\) is symmetric if \(p^T=p\). If \(p\) is an nc polynomial and \(X=(X_1,\dots,X_g)\in\left({\mathbb R}^{n\times n}\right)^g\), then the evaluation \(p(X,X^T)\) is defined by replacing \(x_j\) by \(X_j\) and \(x_j^T\) by \(X_j^T\). An nc symmetric polynomial \(p\) is matrix positive if \(p(X,X^T)\) is a positive semidefinite matrix when evaluated on every \(X\in\left({\mathbb R}^{n\times n}\right)^g\) for all \(n\geqslant 1\). The nc complex Hessian, \(q(x,x^T)[h,h^T]\), of an nc polynomial \(p\) is the nc polynomial in the \(4g\) variables \(x=(x_1,\dots,x_g)\), \(x^T=(x_1^T,\dots,x_g^T)\), \(h=(h_1,\dots,h_g)\), and \(h^T=(h_1^T,\dots,h_g^T)\) defined by \[ q(x,x^T)[h,h^T]={\partial^2p\over\partial s\partial t}(x+th,y+sk)\bigg|_{t,s=0}\bigg|_{y=x^T,k=h^T}. \] Let \(\mathcal B=\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty{\mathcal B}_n\), where \({\mathcal B}_n\subset\left({\mathbb R}^{n\times n}\right)^g\) for \(n=1,2\dots\) The graded set \(\mathcal B\) respects direct sums if, for each finite set \(\{X^1,\dots,X^t\}\) with \(X^j\in{\mathcal B}_{n_j}\) and \(n=\sum_{j=1}^t n_j\), with repetitions allowed, \(\oplus_{j=1}^t X^j\in{\mathcal B}_n\). A set \({\mathcal G}\subset\bigcup_{n\geqslant 1}\left({\mathbb R}^{n\times n}\right)^g\) is an nc open set if it satisfies the following two conditions: {\parindent=6mm\begin{itemize}\item[(1)] \(\mathcal G\) respects direct sums, \item[(2)] there exists a positive integer \(n_0\) such that, if \(n>n_0\), then the set \({\mathcal G}_n={\mathcal G}\cap \left({\mathbb R}^{n\times n}\right)^g\) is an open set of matrix tuples. \end{itemize}} A symmetric nc polynomial \(p\) is nc plurisubharmonic on an nc open set \(\mathcal G\) if its nc complex Hessian \(q\) is matrix positive for all \(X\in{\mathcal G}\). The paper is devoted to prove the following Theorem. If \(p\) is an nc symmetric polynomial that is nc plurisubharmonic on an open nc set, then its nc complex Hessian \(q\) can be written as \[ q=V(x,x^T)[h,h^T]^TL(x,x^T)DL(x,x^T)^TV(x,x^T)[h,h^T], \] where \(V(x,x^T)[h,h^T]\) is a vector monomial in \(x, x^T, h, h^T\), \(D={\text{diag}}(d_1,\dots,d_{\mathcal N})\) is a positive semidefinite constant real matrix, and \(L(x,x^T)\) is a unit lower triangular matrix with nc polynomial entries. The above theorem is used to prove the following result, which is a local version of the main theorem of [\textit{J. M. Greene, J. W. Helton} and \textit{V. Vinnikov}, J. Funct. Anal. 261, No. 11, 3390--3417 (2011; Zbl 1254.47005)]. Theorem. If an nc symmetric polynomial \(p\) is nc plurisubharmonic on an nc open set, then it is nc plurisubharmonic everywhere and has the form \[ p=\sum f_j^Tf_j+\sum k_jk_j^T+F+F^T, \] where the sums are finite and each \(f_j\), \(k_j\), and \(F\) is nc analytic. For Part I, see [\textit{J. M. Greene}, \textit{J. W. Helton} and \textit{V. Vinnikov}, J. Funct. Anal. 261, No.~11, 3390--3417 (2011; Zbl 1254.47005)].





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