Uniqueness of the operator attaining
Unitary automorphisms of the space of Toeplitz-plus-Hankel matrices
Our motivation was a paper of 1991 indicating three special unitary matrices that map Hermitian Toeplitz matrices by similarity into real Toeplitz-plus-Hankel matrices. Generalizing this result, we give a complete description of unitary similarity automorphisms of the space of Toeplitz-plus-Hankel matrices.
Universal bounds for matrix semigroups
We show that any compact semigroup of n × n matrices is similar to a semigroup bounded by √n. We give examples to show that this bound is best possible and consider the effect of the minimal rank of matrices in the semigroup on this bound.
Upper bounds for the best normal approximation.