On Abstract Spectral Constants

Abstract

We prove bounds for a class of unital homomorphisms arising in the study of spectral sets, by involving extremal functions and vectors. These are used to recover three celebrated results on spectral constants by Crouzeix--Palencia, Okubo--Ando and von Neumann in a unified way and to refine a recent result by Crouzeix--Greenbaum.

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