Some spectral inequalities involving generalized scalar operators
Volume 109 / 1994
Studia Mathematica 109 (1994), 51-66
DOI: 10.4064/sm-109-1-51-66
Abstract
In 1971, Allan Sinclair proved that for a hermitian element h of a Banach algebra and λ complex we have ∥λ + h∥ = r(λ + h), where r denotes the spectral radius. Using Levin's subordination theory for entire functions of exponential type, we extend this result locally to a much larger class of generalized spectral operators. This fundamental result improves many earlier results due to Gelfand, Hille, Colojoară-Foiaş, Vidav, Dowson, Dowson-Gillespie-Spain, Crabb-Spain, I. & V. Istrăţescu, Barnes, Pytlik, Boyadzhiev and others.
