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Main Authors: Das, B. Krishna, Kumar, Poornendu, Sau, Haripada
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27713
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author Das, B. Krishna
Kumar, Poornendu
Sau, Haripada
author_facet Das, B. Krishna
Kumar, Poornendu
Sau, Haripada
contents We introduce the notion of Cayley--Hamilton tuples: these are commuting operator tuples that are annihilated by a non-zero polynomial and such that its Taylor joint spectrum coincides with the algebraic variety determined by its annihilating ideal. Commuting matrix tuples are Cayley--Hamilton tuples. We provide two families of Cayley--Hamilton tuples in the infinite dimensional setting with additional details. What arises as a by-product is a concrete characterization of distinguished varieties in the polydisk in terms of Taylor joint spectrum of commuting isometries. These varieties have been of interest in various fields of mathematics over the last two decades. The Taylor and Waelbroeck joint spectrum of a Cayley--Hamilton tuple are shown to be the same. It is also shown that the support of the annihilating ideal of a Cayley--Hamilton tuple is the same as its joint spectrum. As an application, we deduce an algebraic characterization of bi-variate polynomials whose zero set intersected with the closed bidisk is the joint spectrum of a commuting isometric pair.
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spellingShingle Cayley--Hamilton tuples: an interplay between algebraic varieties and joint spectra
Das, B. Krishna
Kumar, Poornendu
Sau, Haripada
Functional Analysis
Algebraic Geometry
14M12, 47A13
We introduce the notion of Cayley--Hamilton tuples: these are commuting operator tuples that are annihilated by a non-zero polynomial and such that its Taylor joint spectrum coincides with the algebraic variety determined by its annihilating ideal. Commuting matrix tuples are Cayley--Hamilton tuples. We provide two families of Cayley--Hamilton tuples in the infinite dimensional setting with additional details. What arises as a by-product is a concrete characterization of distinguished varieties in the polydisk in terms of Taylor joint spectrum of commuting isometries. These varieties have been of interest in various fields of mathematics over the last two decades. The Taylor and Waelbroeck joint spectrum of a Cayley--Hamilton tuple are shown to be the same. It is also shown that the support of the annihilating ideal of a Cayley--Hamilton tuple is the same as its joint spectrum. As an application, we deduce an algebraic characterization of bi-variate polynomials whose zero set intersected with the closed bidisk is the joint spectrum of a commuting isometric pair.
title Cayley--Hamilton tuples: an interplay between algebraic varieties and joint spectra
topic Functional Analysis
Algebraic Geometry
14M12, 47A13
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27713