We consider linearly independent families of Hermitian matrices {A1, . . . , Am} so thatWk(A) is convex. It is shown that m can reach the upper bound 2k(n− k) + 1. A key idea in our study is relating the convexity of Wk(A) to the problem of constructing rank k orthogonal projections under linear constraints determined by A. The techniques are extended to study the convexity of other generalized...

Suppose that c is an operator on a Hilbert Space H such that the von Neumann algebra N generated by c is finite. Let τ be a faithful normal tracial state on N and set b1 = (c+ c )/2 and b2 = (c− c)/2i. Also write B for the spectral scale of {b1, b2} relative to τ . In previous work by the present authors, some joint with Nik Weaver, B has been shown to contain considerable spectral information ...

The numerical range W (A) of an n×n matrix A is the collection of complex numbers of the form x∗Ax, where x ∈ C is a unit vector. It can be viewed as a “picture” of A containing useful information of A. Even if the matrix A is not known explicitly, the “picture” W (A) would allow one to “see” many properties of the matrix. For example, the numerical range can be used to locate eigenvalues, dedu...

The numerical range of a matrix is studied geometrically via the cone of positive semidefinite matrices (or semidefinite cone for short). In particular it is shown that the feasible set of a two-dimensional linear matrix inequality (LMI), an affine section of the semidefinite cone, is always dual to the numerical range of a matrix, which is therefore an affine projection of the semidefinite con...

For a nonnegative integer p, we give explicit formulas for the p-Frobenius number and p-genus of generalized Fibonacci numerical semigroups. Here, p-numerical semigroup Sp is defined as set integers whose integral linear combinations given positive a1,a2,…,ak are expressed in more than p ways. When p=0, S0 with 0-Frobenius 0-genus original Frobenius genus. In this paper, consider involving Jaco...

We offer an almost self-contained development of Perron–Frobenius type results for the numerical range of an (irreducible) nonnegative matrix, rederiving and completing the previous work of Issos, Nylen and Tam, and Tam and Yang on this topic. We solve the open problem of characterizing nonnegative matrices whose numerical ranges are regular convex polygons with center at the origin. Some relat...