We study the following question: suppose that A and ℬ are two algebras of complex n × n matrices such that the ring commutator [A, B] = AB – BA is "small" for each A ∈ A and B ∈ ℬ; does this imply ...
In the fall of 2017, Mehtaab Sawhney, then an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a graduate reading group that set out to study a single paper over a semester. But by ...