Orthogonally additive and orthogonally multiplicative holomorphic functions of matrices

Abstract

Let $H:M_m\to M_m$ be a holomorphic function of the algebra $M_m$ of complex $m\times m$ matrices. Suppose that $H$ is orthogonally additive and orthogonally multiplicative on self-adjoint elements. We show that either the range of $H$ consists of zero trace elements, or there is a scalar sequence $\{{\lambda }_n\}$ and an invertible $S$ in $M_m$ such that $$H(x)=\sum _{n\ge 1}{\lambda }_n{S}^{-1}{x}^{n}S,\forall x\in M_m,$$ or $$H(x)=\sum _{n\ge 1}{\lambda }_n{S}^{-1}(x^t{)}^{n}S,\forall x\in M_m.$$ Here, $x^t$ is the transpose of the matrix $x$. In the latter case, we always have the first representation form when $H$ also preserves zero products. We also discuss the cases where the domain and the range carry different dimensions.

arXiv commentAnn. Funct. Anal. Volume 5, Number 2, 2014, to appear. This version enhances the published version with a note as "added in proofs"