C*-Convexity and Matricial Ranges

Farenick, D. R.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 44 (1992) no. 2, pp. 280-297

Résumé

C* -convex sets in matrix algebras are convex sets of matrices in which matrix-valued convex coefficients are admitted along with the usual scalar-valued convex coefficients. A Carathéodory-type theorem is developed for C *-convex hulls of compact sets of matrices, and applications of this theorem are given to the theory of matricial ranges. If T is an element in a unital C*-algebra , then for every n ∈ N, the n x n matricial range Wn (T) of T is a compact C * -convex set of n x n matrices. The basic relation W 1(T) = conv σ-(T) is well known to hold if T exhibits the normal-like quality of having the spectral radius of β T + μ 1 coincide with the norm ||β T + μ 1|| for every pair of complex numbers β and μ. An extension of this relation to the matrix spaces is given by Theorem 2.6: Wn (T) is the C *-convex hull of the n x n matricial spectrum σn(T) of T if, for every B,M ∈ Mn, the norm of T ⊗ B + 1 ⊗ M in ⊗ Mn is the maximum value in {||∧⊗B + 1 ⊗M|| : Λ ∈ σn (T)}. The spatial matricial range of a Hilbert space operator is the analogue of the classical numerical range, although it can fail to be convex if n > 1. It is shown in § 3 that if T has a normal dilation N with σ (N) ⊂ σ (T), then the closure of the spatial matricial range of T is convex if and only if it is C *-convex.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1992-019-1

Mots-clés : Primary:, 47A12, secondary:, 15A60, 46L05

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