TY - BOOK AU - Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi,Dmitry S. AU - Vinnikov,Victor TI - Foundations of free noncommutative function theory T2 - Mathematical surveys and monographs SN - 9781470416973 (hbk.: acidfree paper) U1 - 510MS 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Providence PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Functional analysis KW - Noncommutative algebras KW - Noncommutative function spaces KW - Nonassociative rings and algebras -- General nonassociative rings -- Free algebras N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index; 1. Introduction-- 2. NC functions and their difference-differential calculus-- 3. Higher order nc functions and their difference-differential calculus-- 4. The Taylor-Taylor formula-- 5. NC functions on nilpotent matrices-- 6. NC polynomials vs. polynomials in matrix entries-- 7. NC analyticity and convergence of TT series-- 9. Convergence of nc power series-- 9. Direct summands extensions of nc sets and nc functions (Some) earlier work on nc functions-- Appendix A. Similarity invariant envelopes and extension of nc functions-- Bibliography-- Index N2 - This book is developed by a theory of free noncommutative functions, in both algebraic and analytic settings. Such functions are defined as mappings from square matrices of all sizes over a module (in particular, a vector space) to square matrices over another module, which respect the size, direct sums, and similarities of matrices. Examples include, but are not limited to, noncommutative polynomials, power series, and rational expressions. Motivation and inspiration for using the theory of free noncommutative functions often comes from free probability. An important application area is dimensionless matrix inequalities; these arise, e.g., in various optimization problems of system engineering. Among other related areas are those of polynomial identities in rings, formal languages and finite automata, quasideterminants, noncommutative symmetric functions, operator spaces and operator algebras, quantum control ER -