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HERMITIANS IN MATRIX ALGEBRAS WITH OPERATOR NORM – II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2021

JOHN DUNCAN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA e-mail: jduncan@uark.edu
COLIN M. McGREGOR
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland, UK e-mail: Colin.McGregor@glasgow.ac.uk

Abstract

We continue our investigation of the real space H of Hermitian matrices in $${M_n}(\mathbb{C})$$ with respect to norms on $${\mathbb{C}^n}$$. We complete the commutative case by showing that any proper real subspace of the real diagonal matrices on $${\mathbb{C}^n}$$ can appear as H. For the non-commutative case, we give a complete solution when n=3 and we provide various illustrative examples for n ≥ 4. We end with a short list of problems.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust

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