Surfaces and hypersurfaces as the joint spectrum of matrices

Abstract

The Clifford spectrum is an elegant way to define the joint spectrum of several Hermitian operators. While it has been know that for examples as small as three $2$-by-$2$ matrices the Clifford spectrum can be a two-dimensional manifold, few concrete examples have been investigated. Our main goal is to generate examples of the Clifford spectrum of three or four matrices where, with the assistance of a computer algebra package, we can calculate the Clifford spectrum.

arXiv commentThe Mathematica and video ancillary files are available at https://math.unm.edu/~loring/CliffordExperiments/. They were larger than what is allowed by the arXiv for ancillary files. No changes to the manuscript except for a different description of the location of the supplementary files