Connecting Commuting Normal Matrices

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Authors Fredy Vides

Publication date 18 August 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60) Linear operator approximation theory (47A58) Commutativity of matrices (15A27)

Abstract: In this document we study the local path connectivity of sets of $m$-tuples of commuting normal matrices with some additional geometric constraints in their joint spectra. In particular, given $varepsilon>0$ and any fixed but arbitrary $m$-tuple $mathbfXin{M_n(mathbbC)}^m$ in the set of $m$-tuples of pairwise commuting normal matrix contractions, we prove the existence of paths between arbitrary $m$-tuples in the intersection of the previously mentioned sets of $m$-tuples in ${M_n(mathbbC)}^m$ and the $delta$-ball $B_{e}th(mathbfX,delta)$ centered at $mathbfX$ for some $delta>0$, with respect to some suitable metric $eth$ in ${M_n(mathbbC)}^m$ induced by the operator norm. Two of the key features of these matrix paths is that $delta$ can be chosen independent of $n$, and that the paths stay in the intersection of $B_{e}th(mathbfX,varepsilon)$, and the set pairwise commuting normal matrix contractions with some special geometric structure on their joint spectra. We apply these results to study the local connectivity properties of matrix $ast$-representations of some universal commutative $C^{a}st$-algebras. Some connections with the local connectivity properties of completely positive linear maps on matrix algebras are studied as well.

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