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Pauline Mellon

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arXiv2025

Holomorphic mappings and their fixed points on Spin Factors

In this paper we study holomorphic properties of infinite dimensional spin factors. Among the infinite dimensional Banach spaces with homogeneous open unit balls, we show that the spin factors are natural outlier spaces in which to ask the question (as was proved in the early 1970s for Hilbert spaces): Do biholomorphic automorphisms $g$ of the open unit ball $B$ have fixed points in $\overline B$? In this paper, for infinite dimensional spin factors, we provide reasonable conditions on $g$ that allow us to explicitly construct fixed points of $g$ lying on $\partial B$. En route, we also prove that every spin factor has the density property. In another direction, we focus on (compact) holomorphic maps $f:B\rightarrow B$, having no fixed point in $B$ and examine the sequence of iterates $(f^n)$. As $(f^n)$ does not generally converge, we instead trace the target set $T(f)$ of $f$, that is, the images of all accumulation points of $(f^n)_n$, for any topology finer than the topology of pointwise convergence on B. We prove for a spin factor that $T(f)$ lies on the boundary of a single bidisc unique to $f$.

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arXiv2021

The Bergmann-Shilov boundary of a bounded symmetric domain

We show that there are many sets in the boundary of a bounded symmetric domain that determine the values and norm of holomorphic functions on the domain having continuous extensions to the boundary. We provide an analogue of the Bergmann-Shilov boundary for finite rank JB*-triples.

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arXiv2021

Solving the problem of simultaneous diagonalization of complex symmetric matrices via congruence

We provide a solution to the problem of simultaneous $diagonalization$ $via$ $congruence$ of a given set of $m$ complex symmetric $n\times n$ matrices $\{A_{1},\ldots,A_{m}\}$, by showing that it can be reduced to a possibly lower-dimensional problem where the question is rephrased in terms of the classical problem of simultaneous $diagonalization$ $via$ $similarity$ of a new related set of matrices. We provide a procedure to determine in a finite number of steps whether or not a set of matrices is simultaneously diagonalizable by congruence. This solves a long standing problem in the complex case.

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arXiv2021

Determining when an algebra is an evolution algebra

Evolution algebras are non-associative algebras that describe non-Mendelian hereditary processes and have connections with many other areas. In this paper we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a given algebra $A$ to be an evolution algebra. We prove that the problem is equivalent to the so-called $SDC$ $problem$, that is, the $simultaneous$ $diagonalisation$ $via$ $congruence$ of a given set of matrices. More precisely we show that an $n$-dimensional algebra $A$ is an evolution algebra if, and only if, a certain set of $n$ symmetric $n\times n$ matrices $\{M_{1}, \ldots, M_{n}\}$ describing the product of $A$ are $SDC$. We apply this characterisation to show that while certain classical genetic algebras (representing Mendelian and auto-tetraploid inheritance) are not themselves evolution algebras, arbitrarily small perturbations of these are evolution algebras. This is intriguing as evolution algebras model asexual reproduction unlike the classical ones.

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