Square roots and quasi-square roots in locally multiplicatively convex algebras
We give a necessary and a sufficient condition for a subset of a locally convex Waelbroeck algebra to have a non-void left joint spectrum In particular, for a Lie subalgebra we have if and only if generates in a proper left ideal. We also obtain a version of the spectral mapping formula for a modified left joint spectrum. Analogous theorems for the right joint spectrum and the Harte spectrum are also valid.
A study is made of a symmetric functional calculus for a system of bounded linear operators acting on a Banach space. Finite real linear combinations of the operators have real spectra, but the operators do not necessarily commute with each other. Analytic functions of the operators are formed by using functions taking their values in a Clifford algebra.