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Symmetric
numerical ranges of four-by-four matrices
Shelby L. Burnett, Ashley Chandler and Linda J. Patton
Vol. 11 (2018), No. 5, 803–826
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Abstract |
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Numerical ranges of matrices with rotational symmetry are studied. Some cases in which symmetry of the numerical range implies symmetry of the spectrum are described. A parametrized class of matrices such that the numerical range has fourfold symmetry about the origin but the generalized numerical range does not have this symmetry is included. In 2011, Tsai and Wu showed that the numerical ranges of weighted shift matrices, which have rotational symmetry about the origin, are also symmetric about certain axes. We show that any matrix whose numerical range has fourfold symmetry about the origin also has the corresponding axis symmetry. The support function used to prove these results is also used to show that the numerical range of a composition operator on Hardy space with automorphic symbol and minimal polynomial is not a disk. |
Keywords
numerical range, symmetry, weighted shift matrices,
composition operator
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 15A60
Secondary: 47B33
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Milestones
Received: 13 December 2016
Revised: 30 July 2017
Accepted: 3 September 2017
Published: 2 April 2018
Communicated by Chi-Kwong Li
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Authors |
| Shelby L. Burnett | |
| California Polytechnic State
University San Luis Obispo, CA United States |
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| Ashley Chandler | |
| California Polytechnic State
University San Luis Obispo, CA United States |
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| Linda J. Patton | |
| California Polytechnic State
University San Luis Obispo, CA United States |
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