Surjectivity of polynomial maps on matrices

DOI10.1007/S40879-025-00853-6MaRDI QIDQ6914917zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Saikat Panja, Prachi Saini, Anupam Singh

Publication date 15 October 2025

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S40879-025-00853-6

zbMATH Keywords

diagonal polynomialmatrix algebrapolynomial mapsquaternions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Endomorphism rings; matrix rings (16S50)

Review text

Since the 18th century, when Waring formulated a problem of representation of a natural number as a sum of powers, tons of literature appeared where various versions of this question were treated in commutative and non-commutative settings. The authors of the paper under review consider yet another non-commutative generalization of the Waring problem. Namely, their main object is a diagonal form \(f\) in \(m\) non-commuting variables defined over a field \(K\). The values of \(f\) are computed on \(m\)-tuples of elements of an associative algebra \(A\). The focus is on the case where \(A\) is a matrix algebra over \(K\) and \(K\) is either real, or complex, or finite. (The case where \(K\) is the ring of Hamiltonian quaternions is also considered.) The paper contains a number of surjectivity results for the evaluation map induced by \(f\).

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