On the joint spectral radius of a nilpotent Lie algebra of matrices
Volume 132 / 1999
Studia Mathematica 132 (1999), 15-27
DOI: 10.4064/sm-132-1-15-27
Abstract
For a complex nilpotent finite-dimensional Lie algebra of matrices, and a Jordan-Hölder basis of it, we prove a spectral radius formula which extends a well-known result for commuting matrices.